{"id":2242,"date":"2014-05-28T16:50:06","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T23:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/djmgyx.net\/WP\/?p=2242"},"modified":"2014-06-05T20:23:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T03:23:26","slug":"another-gone-but-never-to-be-forgotten-pillar-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/djmgyx.net\/WP\/thoughts\/another-gone-but-never-to-be-forgotten-pillar-of-the-world","title":{"rendered":"Another gone but never to be forgotten pillar of the world"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Still I Rise<\/h2>\n

Maya Angelou, 1928 – 2014<\/h3>\n

You may write me down in history
\nWith your bitter, twisted lies,
\nYou may trod me in the very dirt
\nBut still, like dust, I\u2019ll rise.<\/p>\n

Does my sassiness upset you?
\nWhy are you beset with gloom?
\n\u2018Cause I walk like I\u2019ve got oil wells
\nPumping in my living room.<\/p>\n

Just like moons and like suns,
\nWith the certainty of tides,
\nJust like hopes springing high,
\nStill I\u2019ll rise.<\/p>\n

Did you want to see me broken?
\nBowed head and lowered eyes?
\nShoulders falling down like teardrops,
\nWeakened by my soulful cries?<\/p>\n

Does my haughtiness offend you?
\nDon\u2019t you take it awful hard
\n\u2018Cause I laugh like I\u2019ve got gold mines
\nDiggin\u2019 in my own backyard.<\/p>\n

You may shoot me with your words,
\nYou may cut me with your eyes,
\nYou may kill me with your hatefulness,
\nBut still, like air, I\u2019ll rise.<\/p>\n

Does my sexiness upset you?
\nDoes it come as a surprise
\nThat I dance like I\u2019ve got diamonds
\nAt the meeting of my thighs?<\/p>\n

Out of the huts of history\u2019s shame
\nI rise
\nUp from a past that\u2019s rooted in pain
\nI rise
\nI\u2019m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
\nWelling and swelling I bear in the tide.<\/p>\n

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
\nI rise
\nInto a daybreak that\u2019s wondrously clear
\nI rise
\nBringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
\nI am the dream and the hope of the slave.
\nI rise
\nI rise
\nI rise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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