A Woman Determined
    by Sihstah Netifa
From Itations of Jamaica and I Rastafari I           Third Edition      Copyright
I'm a mountain
High
Solid
Go Around
Because you can't move me
I'm the soil
Growing Seeds
Pyramids on my belly
Bringing forth life
I'm the Nile
Joining Nations
Running Deep
Sometimes Silent
A path
Her Story
My History
Black Mans History
Yes!  Yes!  Like the Nile
Travelling, Travelling
Pushing, Pulling
Touching shores
Making ripples
Ripples making waves
Rolling, rolling
For us the destiny of nations
The history of mankind
I am the stories told
For generations
Because her story can never
NEVER
Be erased
Hapshepsut, Neffertitti, Candace,
Yaa Asantewa
Claudia Jones, Nahnnihi, Nzinga,
Winnie Mandela and YOU!
Because her story
Our history can never
Never
Be erased
And when giving
Unconditonal love
Means receiving
Unconditonal love
When my brothers help me
when I stumble
Not walk over me when I fall
We will have come together
To challenge Babylonian system
And I will have ceased to be a number
On a file
A statistic
Ethnic
And as my partner sees me for what I am
Friends will say I have changed
Thats because they can see how like
The river Nile I am
Running deep
Sometimes
Silent
Always fighting for my rights
My justice
Then they will know
And I can truly say
I am a woman
A woman determined
DETERMINED
To help in this fight
To free her peoples
Wherever they may be

SIHSTAH NETIFA


borrowed with much respect       ....just me...daez
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