Flashes of Insight

The Dream is Awakened

It is Nov 5, and we have an inspiring new president.
I FEEL SO WONDERFUL and I just keep tearing up. When I saw that park in Chicago so filled with love and light I remembered the last time I had viewed that space and it was during the Days of Rage from the Democratic Convention, so many years ago. That was a police riot where so many of us were maimed or killed. I wept for all the years that some of us have held this vision of freedom and justice. Images of being tear gassed and followed by the police flooded my thoughts..How many years we have worked to fulfill Martin’s Dream, how many years to honor the dead in Rosewood, the freedom riders Emmett Till Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman,SojournerTruth and Martin and Malcolm and Marley and Medgar and those that drowned during the Middle Passage and on and on. (read on…)

YES WE CAN
BY FLASH SILVERMOON C/GODDESS TUNES 2008
I
There’s a promise in the air you can feel it everywhere
You can feel it everywhere Yes We Can

II
There’s a time for a change a time to turn the page
A time to come of age Yes We Can
CHORUS
Yes we can yes we can you can feel it in the air yes we can
Bridge
Our Ancestors they watch us with such pride
You know they’re marching with us
You can feel them by your side.
III
We’re Dancin in the streets huggin everyone we meet
Huggin everyone we meet Yes We Can
IV
There’s a smile on my face it’s a brand new day
A brand new day Yes We Can
Chorus
Yes we can yes we can yes we can ohhhhhhh oh we can
a brand new day YES WE CAN