MEGHAN, THE DUCHESS OF SUSSEX: STILL I RISE MEGHAN, THE DUCHESS OF SUSSEX: STILL I RISE
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
Just 'cause I walk as if I have oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I’ll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?
Does my sassiness upset you?
Don’t take it so hard
Just 'cause I laugh as if I have gold mines
Digging in my own backyard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You can kill me with your hatefulness,
But just like life, I’ll rise.
Does my sexiness offend you? (awww)
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance as if I have diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history’s shame,
I rise.
Up from a past rooted in pain,
I rise
A black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling and bearing in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear,
I rise.
Into a daybreak miraculously clear,
I rise.
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the hope and the dream of the slave.
And so... There I go.
By Vee for Sussexaquad
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