<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=565594" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>My Power</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In my mind I raced against time<br>I smoked peyote with the Apache<br>I chased Kangaroos <br>Through the bush with the Aborigine<br>All the while <br>I searched for the power within me</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In my mind I outpaced time<br>I drew cave art with the Neanderthal<br>I climbed to the top of the mountain with the Sherpa<br>I hunted seal out on the frozen tundra with the Inuit<br>All the while <br>I searched for the power within me</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In my mind I eclipsed time<br>I wrote poetry while under the tutelage of Langston Hughes<br>And I created visual greatness while apprentice to Gordon Parks<br>I even stood on the wall with Che' Guevara like a Sentry standing watch<br>All the while <br>I continued to search for the power within me</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In my mind I turned to face time<br>I wrote an addendum to the Emancipation Proclamation<br>And I saw the ugly truths, of freedom's farcical Declaration<br>All the while <br>I continued to search for the power within me</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In my mind I embraced time<br>I sought to free my nation from the pandemic perils of cocaine<br>And I prayed that we Americans would be free of<br>The snares of racial and economic divide that still has us chained<br>I did this while searching for truth, in this, our most tenuous hour<br>Then finally, God touched me, and I found my power</div><div style="margin:10px 0">* Reprinted from 'Exegesis a Decade of Poetry by Mekael'<br>© July 14,2009 by Mekael</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mekael+Shane">Mekael Shane</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=565594" data-title="My Power de Mekael Shane" data-description="In my mind I raced against time I smoked peyote with the Apache I chased Kangaroos Through the bush with the Aborigine All the while I searched for the power within me In my mind I outpaced time I drew cave art with the Neanderthal I climbed to..."></div> </div> </div>

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