{"id":462,"date":"2019-05-19T20:45:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T20:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/?p=462"},"modified":"2019-05-24T23:14:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T23:14:33","slug":"we-shall-be-heard-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/we-shall-be-heard-2\/","title":{"rendered":"We Shall Be Heard"},"content":{"rendered":"

we shall be heard * by Conni Blair<\/p>\n

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When my course is charted <\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n
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When my story is told <\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

When I am revered <\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

And have grown tired and old Tell no tales of my life <\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

Let only truth toll the bell <\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

Tell of my grace and my beauty <\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

Tell how I rose and not fell <\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

Tell of my mastering the language <\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

Without being taught <\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

Tell how when I was being shackeled <\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

That I struggled and fought <\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

Tell how alabaster skinned babies <\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

Suckled nourishment from ebony breast <\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

And how I stood erect in the cottonfield <\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

Without hardly ever getting rest <\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

And yet and still in that state <\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

Caught the roving, evil eye Of the whip toting master <\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

Although, vehemently, he denied <\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

And still danced lightly through the meadow <\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

And lay with my real soulmate <\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

With a sensual, earthy countenance <\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

And with God as the holder of my fate <\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

Never write me off or count me out <\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

For I am resilient and resolute <\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

And my story is one of victory <\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

And my voice is no longer mute<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

I Shall be Heard <\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

I Shall Be Heard <\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

We Shall Be Heard<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n
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  • <\/abbr><\/li>\n
  • \u00a9 Conni Blair, All rights reserved.<\/li>\n
  • <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    we shall be heard * by Conni Blair When my course is charted When my story is told When I am revered And have grown tired and old Tell no tales of my life Let only truth toll the bell Tell of my grace and my beauty Tell how I rose and not fell Tell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":892,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions\/892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}