The Spirit of Humanity

Lift me up As I rise on shaky knees Give me strength To rise from this bottom of rocks Willed in my determination To climb back to this mountain top Call me a Climber, ambitious An Expeditionist A Pilgrim on uncharted land A Soldier on these battled bends An Activist when I take a stand Peaceful, but with determination A Bird, I’ll go out on a limb Holding tight against the wind A Leader, I won’t hop the wagon with the crowd Not back then, and still not now A Dream of many faces, of many phases Something courageous Even in valleys we rise like nothing can break us Even through opposition we rise together in greatness Even when we stumble in our focused cause We still hurdle boundaries and break down walls In millions, we still pause When a handful die by some madman's cause There’s still something decent within us all When we answer the cry of our fallen brother Rebuild, pray, and aid in their recover Because we are not one without the other