We Are a Prideful People
My blood runs dark;
its stream flows strong.
As powerful as the Nile,
rich as the oil fields of West Africa.
My blood is regal;
my ancestry affluent.
My family tree is prominent,
like the great pyramids of Egypt.
My blood’s been shed,
over deep-running roots.
Yet my heritage is free.
We are a prideful people.

*I re-blogged this poem I submitted to The Uproar not too long ago. But I’m posting it again. Why? Because the image makes it so much more powerful.



