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Black Star Line

By
Nicole Salmon

We Dream

We are Visionaries

with imagination working overtime

dispatched to places leaving our bodies behind

uncaged spirit free to soar once more

to peak behind what lays just beyond heaven’s door

we dream believing we can shape a different world into being

one we shouldn’t have to die before seeing

And all the while with unabashed pride
Toni writes about Black Lives

We are Visionaries

with imagination working overtime

dispatched to places leaving our bodies behind

uncaged spirit free to soar once more

to peak behind what lays just beyond heaven’s door

we dream believing we can shape a different world into being

one we shouldn’t have to die before seeing

And all the while with unabashed pride
Toni writes about Black Lives

We are Visionaries

with imagination working overtime

dispatched to places leaving our bodies behind

uncaged spirit free to soar once more

to peak behind what lays just beyond heaven’s door

we dream believing we can shape a different world into being

one we shouldn’t have to die before seeing

And all the while with unabashed pride
Toni writes about Black Lives

We are Visionaries

with imagination working overtime

dispatched to places leaving our bodies behind

uncaged spirit free to soar once more

to peak behind what lays just beyond heaven’s door

we dream believing we can shape a different world into being

one we shouldn’t have to die before seeing

And all the while with unabashed pride
Toni writes about Black Lives

We Create

We are Innovators

with unabated zeal we plunge deep

unlocking limits and talents lurking beneath

spewing art like a shooting star

fertilizing the world from what we carve

we create altered states from pristine slates

bringing to fore things never seen before

And all the while with unabashed pride

Toni writes about Black Lives

We are Innovators

with unabated zeal we plunge deep

unlocking limits and talents lurking beneath

spewing art like a shooting star

fertilizing the world from what we carve

we create altered states from pristine slates

bringing to fore things never seen before

And all the while with unabashed pride

Toni writes about Black Lives

We are Innovators

with unabated zeal we plunge deep

unlocking limits and talents lurking beneath

spewing art like a shooting star

fertilizing the world from what we carve

we create altered states from pristine slates

bringing to fore things never seen before

And all the while with unabashed pride

Toni writes about Black Lives

We are Innovators

with unabated zeal we plunge deep

unlocking limits and talents lurking beneath

spewing art like a shooting star

fertilizing the world from what we carve

we create altered states from pristine slates

bringing to fore things never seen before

And all the while with unabashed pride

Toni writes about Black Lives

We Witness

We are Story-tellers

with empath we feel Billie’s ache

singing of strange fruit’s dangled fate

we see Rosa defy on a Montgomery bus ride

we, like Marvin asks “What’s Going On?”

we witness to overwrite impending lies

to Blackwash what history will try to hide

And all the while with unabashed pride

Toni writes about Black Lives

We are Story-tellers

with empath we feel Billie’s ache

singing of strange fruit’s dangled fate

we see Rosa defy on a Montgomery bus ride

we, like Marvin asks “What’s Going On?”

we witness to overwrite impending lies

to Blackwash what history will try to hide

And all the while with unabashed pride

Toni writes about Black Lives

We are Story-tellers

with empath we feel Billie’s ache

singing of strange fruit’s dangled fate

we see Rosa defy on a Montgomery bus ride

we, like Marvin asks “What’s Going On?”

we witness to overwrite impending lies

to Blackwash what history will try to hide

And all the while with unabashed pride

Toni writes about Black Lives

We are Story-tellers

with empath we feel Billie’s ache

singing of strange fruit’s dangled fate

we see Rosa defy on a Montgomery bus ride

we, like Marvin asks “What’s Going On?”

we witness to overwrite impending lies

to Blackwash what history will try to hide

And all the while with unabashed pride

Toni writes about Black Lives

We Rage

We are Hurting beings

with a sear that holds both hot and cold heat

smoldering waiting for the dousing of grief

coiled like a stubborn knot with little release

that time refuses to completely ease

we rage but that don’t mean lives devoid of joy

that oozes and soothes as we celebrate Black joy

And all the while with unabashed pride

Toni writes about Black Lives

We are Hurting beings

with a sear that holds both hot and cold heat

smoldering waiting for the dousing of grief

coiled like a stubborn knot with little release

that time refuses to completely ease

we rage but that don’t mean lives devoid of joy

that oozes and soothes as we celebrate Black joy

And all the while with unabashed pride

Toni writes about Black Lives

We are Hurting beings

with a sear that holds both hot and cold heat

smoldering waiting for the dousing of grief

coiled like a stubborn knot with little release

that time refuses to completely ease

we rage but that don’t mean lives devoid of joy

that oozes and soothes as we celebrate Black joy

And all the while with unabashed pride

Toni writes about Black Lives

We are Hurting beings

with a sear that holds both hot and cold heat

smoldering waiting for the dousing of grief

coiled like a stubborn knot with little release

that time refuses to completely ease

we rage but that don’t mean lives devoid of joy

that oozes and soothes as we celebrate Black joy

And all the while with unabashed pride

Toni writes about Black Lives

We Challenge

We are Brave and Courageous

with a living fear that has taken abode

wreaking havoc with hurricane force

tearing through our unsettled homes

shattering what we prayed would be protected zone

we challenge balancing on a razor-thin edge

now what other choice have we been led

And all the while with unabashed pride

Toni writes about Black Lives

We are Brave and Courageous

with a living fear that has taken abode

wreaking havoc with hurricane force

tearing through our unsettled homes

shattering what we prayed would be protected zone

we challenge balancing on a razor-thin edge

now what other choice have we been led

And all the while with unabashed pride

Toni writes about Black Lives

We are Brave and Courageous

with a living fear that has taken abode

wreaking havoc with hurricane force

tearing through our unsettled homes

shattering what we prayed would be protected zone

we challenge balancing on a razor-thin edge

now what other choice have we been led

And all the while with unabashed pride

Toni writes about Black Lives

We are Brave and Courageous

with a living fear that has taken abode

wreaking havoc with hurricane force

tearing through our unsettled homes

shattering what we prayed would be protected zone

we challenge balancing on a razor-thin edge

now what other choice have we been led

And all the while with unabashed pride

Toni writes about Black Lives

We Unite

We are the Diaspora

with roots in a homeland many will never see

we seize the possibility of coming together

summoned to a challenge to face as one

responding to the call All for One and One for All

we unite and fight to the end

for a world we all belong in

And all the while with unabashed pride

Toni writes about Black Lives

We are the Diaspora

with roots in a homeland many will never see

we seize the possibility of coming together

summoned to a challenge to face as one

responding to the call All for One and One for All

we unite and fight to the end

for a world we all belong in

And all the while with unabashed pride

Toni writes about Black Lives

We are the Diaspora

with roots in a homeland many will never see

we seize the possibility of coming together

summoned to a challenge to face as one

responding to the call All for One and One for All

we unite and fight to the end

for a world we all belong in

And all the while with unabashed pride

Toni writes about Black Lives

We are the Diaspora

with roots in a homeland many will never see

we seize the possibility of coming together

summoned to a challenge to face as one

responding to the call All for One and One for All

we unite and fight to the end

for a world we all belong in

And all the while with unabashed pride

Toni writes about Black Lives

We Love

We are Free

with daring love our precious currency

splattered with blood, sweat and tears forced to spill

a beam of light within spurring us uphill

no more so than in times of weakened will

we love as Bob wails free our minds from mental slavery

clutching tightly to hope for collective delivery

We are Free

with daring love our precious currency

splattered with blood, sweat and tears forced to spill

a beam of light within spurring us uphill

no more so than in times of weakened will

we love as Bob wails free our minds from mental slavery

clutching tightly to hope for collective delivery

We are Free

with daring love our precious currency

splattered with blood, sweat and tears forced to spill

a beam of light within spurring us uphill

no more so than in times of weakened will

we love as Bob wails free our minds from mental slavery

clutching tightly to hope for collective delivery

We are Free

with daring love our precious currency

splattered with blood, sweat and tears forced to spill

a beam of light within spurring us uphill

no more so than in times of weakened will

we love as Bob wails free our minds from mental slavery

clutching tightly to hope for collective delivery

We Dream

We are Visionaries

We Create

We are Innovators

We Witness

We are Story-tellers

We Rage

We are Hurting beings

We Challenge

We are Brave and Courageous

We Unite

We are the Diaspora

We love

We are Free

And all the while with unabashed pride

Toni writes about Black Lives

And all the while with unabashed pride

Toni writes about Black Lives

And all the while with unabashed pride

Toni writes about Black Lives

And all the while with unabashed pride

Toni writes about Black Lives

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