Speech to the Young. Speech to the Progress-Toward. Gwendolyn Brooks

Speech to the Young.
Speech to the Progress-Toward.

 

Say to them,
say to the down-keepers,
the sun-slappers,
the self-soilers,
the harmony-hushers,

 

“Even if you are not ready for day
it cannot always be night.”
You will be right.
For that is the hard home-run.

 

Live not for battles won.
Live not for The-End-of-the-Song.
Live in the along.

 

~ Gwendolyn Brooks ~

 

(Blacks)