TEZO DIGITAL

  “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? ’Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I’ll rise. Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops. Weakened by my soulful cries. Does my haughtiness offend you? Don’t you take it awful hard ’Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines Diggin’ in my own back yard. You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I’ll rise. Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I’ve got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs? Out of the huts of history’s shame I rise Up from a past that’s rooted in pain I rise I

I wish we all can see the world through our hearts, not through our eyes. I wish we can see how the world is suffering, and leading to destruction. Today our society is very sad to look upon. People claim their lives are meaningless. That the struggles they go through are painful, that they want to end their lives, or live carelessly. But, they are wrong. Your alive, and you are breathing y ou can smile but unfortunately this is not enough. I know they are people with illness and sickness and they battling for their life. They are hurt and fill with pain because of the disease or illness they have. And that alone can make them feel alone. Children are homeless, starving and will do whatever they can to survive. But yet we still say are life is meaningless. By saying those words, we are being ungrateful. By saying those words the people who sacrifice their lives for us was for nothing. By saying those words you are saying they died in vain. The sacrifices they made for us to live in the

love me through it all through the beautiful days through the dark days through the days when I am drowning through the days when I am lost through the days when I am stagnant for it is love, and only love, that heals all wounds that brightens dark days that brings back lost hope that makes life Beautiful!