Dedicated to the Red Tails/Tuskegee Airmen
They said that this was all in err,
at governmental pleasure.
But you took on a challenged dare
cause flyboys dream in azure.
They said the colored man can’t use
the white machinery.
But your intelligence soon proved
this to be bigotry.
They said you just did not possess
a fighter pilot’s stature.
Trial and test could not suppress
your unsung dreams in azure.
They said you’d break and go half mad
in combat as a flier.
Yet glad to see RED were white lads
in bombers under fire.
They said that you were different.
"Have the coloreds for good measure."
Like all pilots, you bravely went
cause flyboys dream in azure.
2/20/18
Categories:
flyboys, black african american, blue,
Form: Quatrain