Dance

I shine bright

Pop them fingers

Dance to the music

I'm surrounded by disco lights

My life is colorful

Red... yellow... pink

Green... tells me to go

Orange... blue... and, purple

All the colors of the rainbow

As long as I have Music

You will never see my struggle

I don't carry the gray

The shaded black & White

Of when my Ancestors once were enslaved

I engrave myself in Diversity

I keep my self-esteem

High on positive energy

Free.... so that I may see clearly

Every cultural & ethnicity

Dancing to the same beat

In one united harmony

Watching the breeze shifting the palm trees

And No! This is not a dream

Those that don't choose a rightful course

Want me to think that this is just make believe

But, Everyone here bleeds one color.... RED

The Same Color my heart beats

I can feel everything

The drums, the symbols, the snares

Creates my free unapologetic Energy

Aye.... as I drop it down low

Blowing the gray off my whistle

While I shake the brown off my tambourine

And every move of the beat captures my body

Because I dance to the beat of a different kind of drum

Hip-hop, Rap, Reggae, House & Soul

Country & Western, Rhythm & Blues

And don't forget my Disco

Please don't assume that I can't keep up

Because I love to dance

And it's the one thing that....

I'm never giving up!!!