Still I Rise

The below excerpt comes from the website "Truth Will Set You Free".

The poem "Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou celebrates perseverance in the face of wrongful oppression, and has been somewhat modified for the FRAUD-based travails of MorganStanleyGate.  It is also DIRECTLY applicable to the Occupy Movement.


From a parochial perspective, this is a message from Spencer C. Young, who loves and dearly misses his family which has been ripped apart by this scandal, and addressed to the esurient bankers, unethical attorneys and corrupt public officials who have played a role in it, with the promise of his unrelenting pursuit for justice.  Importantly, it is this spirit that lives in the hearts, minds and souls of those committed to the Occupy Movement.

Still I Rise
You may write me off in history

With your bitter, twisted lies

You may trod me in the very dirt

But still, like dust, I’ll rise

Did you want to see me broken?

Bowed head and lowered eyes?

Shoulders falling down like teardrops

And weak from soulful cries?

You may shoot me with your tasers

And mustard spray my eyes

You may abuse me with your hatefulness

But still, like air, I’ll rise

  Despite years of unrelenting shame – I rise

Up from GREED that caused this pain – I rise

For I’m now an angry ocean, leaping far and wide

Welling, swelling, quelling those within my tide

Leaving behind dark years of fear – I rise

For daybreaks wondrously clear – I rise

And yielding gifts my ancestors impressed

To fulfill the dreams of those oppressed

I rise . . . I rise . . . I rise