My Black History Poem

I want to lead you to safety like Harriet Tubman, While we are on our way, I want to stop traffic like Garrett Morgan, Before we get there, I want to right all wrongs like Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, While we are here I want to ensure that our minds and spirits are in the right place and then we will get our hearts pumping like Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, So that we can run through fields of gold like Jesse and Wilma, And dance to the beat of a thousand drums like Katherine Dunham and Josephine Baker, I want to be the first up to bat like Jackie and Hank, I want to resound through your ears and your memory bank, Like Mahalia, Marion and Billie, I want to fight battles like Muhammad and Joe, I want to take a stand so that others may sit in comfort, Like Ida and Rosa, I want to give of my time, life, heart, mind, body and soul so that future generations won't have to sit in the dark and sit on the sidelines like Martin and Malcolm, I want to soar through the bluest of skies like the courageous Tuskegee airmen and Dr. Mae Jemison, I want to be the first beauty you recognize like Vanessa Williams, I want to undermine and backhand stereotypes like Althea, Venus and Serena Williams, I want to paint broad presidential brush strokes of the the First Lady and her beau with hues of justice like Simmie I want to act like kings and queens like Harry, Sidney, Lena and Cicely, I want to live on through the pages of your memory, Like Maya, Zora, Lorraine, Langston and James, can't you see?