Beautiful Beings

The Impossible

Let me compose a song
Like Nina Simmons
I'll play that violin
Like Joseph Bologne before her
Hear the mountains shake
With a voice like Tina Turner
While I click that song like Mama Africa
Jazzing it up like Louis Armstrong

See a wordsmith like me
Go to war with a pen
Change the world in a heartbeat
With spoken rhyme
Following the lead of
Martin Luther king Jr
Whispering songs of the soul as Maya Angelou did
With Amanda Gorman
Carrying on the torch

Let me be the narrator
The actor
Hear Africa tell her stories
Through the eyes of
Chimamanda Ngozi
Played out to the letter
By Danai Gurira
Winning that award like Halle Berry
Redefining blackness as Toni Morrison

Let me break the chains of colonialism
Like Kwame Nkrumah
Fighting for your freedom
As Mugabe did
In the name of love and peace to the
Example set by Mandela

Tinkering and engineering a new
Game as Mae Jemison
As Nimrod built citadels
Ages before
Light up the way like Harriet Tubman
Standing firmly  and daring like Rosa Parks

Hear me speak of  a world
Full of wonder
Conjuring up
A land full of legends
Them giants who dared
To be the impossible