Tracking Love’s Print Across These Pages

Tracking Love’s Print Across These Pages

Like Harriet Tubman

Learning to read the rivers,

And the sky,

And the trees and grasses.        Black Moses.

We are reading the signs of the times.

Tracking the signs of the world.

Sojourner read the fire in the bush

And found her new name: Sojourner Truth,

Spoke abolishing slavery.

Tracking Love’s prints Frederick Douglass learned

To read and learned Freedom

And Power.

Tracking Love’s footprints Rosa Parks 

Stepped on the bus and stayed up front

On a thousand buses.

Tracking Love’s footprints Malcolm Little 

Found a new name and way of life,

X marks the spot.

Martin tracked Love’s footprints

In a Birmingham jail and wrote his print 

In a letter that led across the color line

Medgar Evers and Myrlie

And Fannie Lou Hamer tracked Love’s footprints

Under a brutal Mississippi sun and carried a message on

From Garvey and DuBois two-faces

Of Love and Love’s footprints carrying on.

Tracking Love’s footprints drylongso woman

Hangs Monday clothes on the line between porch

And sturdy tree and sun smiles on the steps. While

Tracking Love’s footprints drylongso man is a shade tree

Mechanic and we don’t have to panic just keep on moving.

Tracking Love’s footprints across earth and fields

Of History

We know we can follow through anyway.

Tracking Love’s footprints across these pages

You will find a multitude of miracles

And one woman who loves you.