I see you lady lorraine

I see you lady lorraine as I sell street sense on my corner, as you approach me with trustful calm. you are always smiling with a peace about you. I cannot explain it but you are always at peace with yourself. could this be that you have no fear of my situation or my condition in society. I have read your poems. i have seen your work. tell me lady lorraine where have thou gaineth such ability. as I once wrote my stories in street sense I told my life from the depths of my heart, I do thank you lady lorraine for your encouragement. for it was you who gaveth me the inner strength to continue on. at night as I went to my sleeping place I could still hear the voices and the crowds of passersby, I must reach deep down to the bottom of my soul to pull myself up from the murk and clay and claim my own personal victory"" for I rise lady lorraine, I rise, I rise to tell the world I will not be defeated, I rise to reveal muscular arms and shake them to the heavens and shout out that I will survive this day, and no one will bring me down. I see you lady lorraine I sense your confidence in me. for you I rise, I rise for you do believe in my struggle. I rise again, and again. the world knocks me down one day, but I rise again the next day, for people cannot figure out how and why I keep coming back, for I am not a quitter. and I rise. for fifty years I have continued to rise. I see you lady lorraine, you trust my faith, you trust my judgement, I see you lady lorraine and for you I rise'