When My Sun Will Rise by Beaudelaine Pierre Lyrics

You didn’t see the tragedy coming. You were too busy showing of
the pride of being a free negro. You were so proud to have carried
the seeds of freedom within you that you forgot that sunshine follows
rain and rain follows sunshine. You even forgot your roots.
You cursed and rejected your own flesh, the very ones that fought
with you to free your race. You went to your cousins and called them
“brother.” You called your own brothers “stranger”! You gloried when
you sat with the other and were proud to resemble him, in being more
like him than he was himself. This happened over time. You and I
went from failure to failure. Then came the winds of division. You
went far away from me and I knew that I couldn’t survive. I called
on your spirit. You didn’t understand me. You no longer spoke your
mother’s tongue. I begged you like never before to come back to me.
But you were far away, busy feeding at others' breasts. You glowed
brightly by the heat of other teats, better able to open the doors of
the world than I could. Despite it all, my heart was even fuller of love
and pride seeing you make others happy. I never stopped singing your
praises. I never stopped saying how deep your roots were within me.
That was my only consolation. But I knew then that I was lost, fated
to nothingness.