| Jackson, MS to Pine Bluff, AR | March 9, 2001 |
| Pine Bluff, AR to Birmingham, AL | March 10,2001 |
| Birmingham, AL to Durham, NC | March 12, 2001 |
| Durham, NC to Weldon, NC | March 13, 2001 |
| Weldon, NC to Charleston, SC | March 14, 2001 |
| Charleston, SC to Savannah, GA | March 15, 2001 |
| Savannah, GA to Orlando, FL | March 16-17, 2001 |
| Orlando to Jackson | March 18, 2001 |
| And we ride...
along the path toward freedom/forcing ourselves and the children/ to be better than they were/better than they are/ better than they will be/ reflecting the life that lived before/ in other forms of energy/ urecognizable by the naked eye/blinded by ignoracnce of self/ we mold them like clay/ so they can make better days/ a reality/ in their communities And we ride... ancestral ghosts we now call spirits/ posess us/ and we are blended into the great pictorial scene of nature/ just being reflections of the past/ the past space and time/ in a bus we moved/ and time was not time And we ride... from ghetto streets/hip hop rythms echo ancestral beats/on drums of the soul/ we rode through history with history/Bob as we call him/like Moses does the job of/teaching the children how to "let Pharoah go"/ the sharecroper suffered so the children wouldn't have to/ this is what we do/ we build lives with tools given/ by a man whose life is being lived/ to rename and reclaim the mental capacity/ that the whole world knows belongs to these/ children/ but some strange energy/ wants them to believe that they are not worthy/so we ride...and ride...and ride...until we feel / free and the feeling is the reality/as we ride--peace From the book Past Lives, Still Living: Traveling the Pathways to Freedom by Jolivette Anderson, introduction by Haki Madhubuti (last stanza added 4/6/01) |
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