The UnSpoken Word
by UMES Senior Vicente Hernandez
Hawk Pride
You can call them extremist
How they embody the feathers left by their ancestor As foot prints to find the trails to success My Hawks, Pride is an understatement So you call it love for lack of better words How we fly through these classroom Because these nooses of education Can never hold down our wings See our minds are forever free Like praises to God in 1886 when dreams for this university became reality, Education became obtainable, And we did sit in's in these classrooms Like boycotts on ignorance Because we are tired,
Tired of the statistic our society is planting for us, But we're no longer seeds Children, Whom believe all that they hear We are fighters Coiling the wisdom of, Benjamin Bird, Portia Lovett Bird, Pevaizia O'Connell, Frank Trigg, Thomas Kiah, Robert Grisby, John T. Williams, Howard Emery Wright, Archie Buffkins, William P. Hytche, Sr., Dolores Spikes, Jackie Thomas, Thelma B. Thompson, Mortimer Neufville, And Juliette B. Bell In the palms of our hands Like firecrackers igniting in our souls We're beautiful, Like dreams that all people Races, And students are equal No matter what we are here for we're equal And I'm praying for us,
That we won't forget what took place on these fields So we can attend here, Do you think this is an agricultural university for no reason See our people Worked like slaves So we can work like slaves in our classrooms, Yet, we are equally the master Controller of our own education If only we applied ourselves
So I beg of you,
To remember what your here for,
Remember this is not a break from life to party But a chance for you to better the beauty inside you, Your mind, A chance for you to make new friends, bonds, and some lasting memories And a chance A chance for you to gain a love for your university Because they are helping us to fly,
So Hawk Pride,
Catch it!
UMES Family!
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