Language Arts Crew - Final Lesson lyrics

[Maya Angelou's “No No No No”] I have waited Toes curled, hat rolled Heart and genitals In hand On the back porches Of forever In the kitchens and fields Of rejections On the cold marble steps Of America's White Out-House In the drop seats of buses And the open flies of war No more The dream that you Will cease haunting me Down in fetid swamps of fear And will turn to embrace your own Humanity Which I AM No more The hope that The razored insults Which mercury-slide over your tongue Will be forgotten And you will learn the words of love Mother Brother Father Sister Lover Friend My hopes Dying slowly Rose petals falling Beneath an autumn red moon Will not adorn your unmarked graves My dreams Lying quietly A dark pool under the trees Will not carry your name To a forgetful shore And what a pity What a pity That pity has folded in upon itself And old man's mouth Whose teeth are gone And I have no pity