April Is National Poetry Month!
GET UP AND GO!
MARCUS GARVEY
Please clear the way and let me pass,
If you intend to give up
here:
It seems a shame that you should yield
Your life
without its fullest share.
You are a coward for your pains,
To come this way, and then blow
out:
Real men are made of stuff to last,
Which they,
themselves, would never doubt.
Get up! You broken bits of flesh!
Take courage and go fighting
on;
For every black man there's a day,
Which pride in race
has well begun.
1936
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