poet | Power In One

POWER IN ONE by Ryan Lucas

This is for my unsung heroes who rose to the moment. Faced down they faked out the weight of opponents. Blood boiling. Filled with emotions. Block built off tilts. They still stayed focused. For my brothers in the motherland homeless. For my mothers on welfare in Oakland. For the many stockbrokers to broke men. We lock shoulders promoting a slogan: Living life like it’s golden. Chosen. Raising nations. Quoting slogans over stolen lands. My grandmama…