FREEMAN HERITAGE Freeman Heritage

Read by Shane Morris

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Full Poem: 

 Defeat, my Defeat, my solitude and my aloofness; 

You are dearer to me than a thousand triumphs,

 And sweeter to my heart than all world-glory.  



 Defeat, my Defeat, my self-knowledge and my defiance,

 Through you I know that I am yet young and swift of foot 

And not to be trapped by withering laurels.

 And in you I have found aloneness

 And the joy of being shunned and scorned.  



 Defeat, my Defeat, my shining sword and shield, 

In your eyes I have read That to be enthroned is to be enslaved,

 And to be understood is to be leveled down,

 And to be grasped is but to reach one’s fullness 

And like a ripe fruit to fall and be consumed.  



 Defeat, my Defeat, my bold companion, 

You shall hear my songs and my cries and my silences,

 And none but you shall speak to me of the beating of wings, 

And urging of seas,

 And of mountains that burn in the night,

 And you alone shall climb my steep and rocky soul. 



  Defeat, my Defeat, my deathless courage,

 You and I shall laugh together with the storm,

 And together we shall dig graves for all that die in us,

 And we shall stand in the sun with a will, 

And we shall be dangerous.


---

Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/daudi8/message

I Dream a World 

    Langston Hughes

               1902-1969


---

Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/daudi8/message

Author MJ_DEMARCO


---

Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/daudi8/message