April Is National Poetry Month!
THE START
MARCUS GARVEY
Today I start my life for good;
I am determined now to find
The
value of my real manhood;
And not to travel as if blind.
am
yet young in age and hope;
I shall so think and do
aright,
Things human, and, all in my scope,
To make of life
a shining light.
There shall be no mistake in plan,
For
time does not permit to lose,
And win again, the race of
man;
Hence, now I start, and rightly choose.
I shall not
travel wild to find
That I have fallen almost flat,
Then
rise to weep and leave behind
That I a coward was for that.
So
find yourself in early age,
To know what you shall be in
life;
Then go and write on hist'ry's page
The victories of
your daily strife;
For every man is battling you,
To cross
the plain, with haste to win-
And hoist the flag in colors
blue-
Then show the world where he has been.
October 31, 1927
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