AMBASSADORS OF GOODWILL

"To a more peaceful and loving world"
Mother Teresa could have lived in a Palace so high
But lived amongst the children that constantly cried,
All her days were spent in the slums of Calcutta
Until called home by her loving Creator

He resigned his job as a teacher, Desmond Mpilo Tutu
When the apartheid Education Act was effectuated in 1955 Bantu,
Witnessing Soweto's children egregious police massacre
And the murder of Steve Biko by the authorities slaughter

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela seeking his peoples' freedom
Incarcerated and thrown into a place called locked-down,
True to his belief he spent twenty-seven years in confinement
1994, God answered his prayer, he became South Africa's President

Jean Toomer, despite being racially mixed he was able to pass for white
Profoundly influenced Twentieth Century Blacks to become Novelists and write,
Dread Scott lost his fight in 1857 in the United States Supreme Court
But for generations to come, won the war for the battles he fought

Rosetta Tharpe at age five, singing "I looked down the line and I wonder”
Paved the way for Gospel's golden age performers up yonder,
Henry Ossawa Tanner from America to Paris was his exodus
An African American who became famous, for his painting of "The Raising of Lazarus...
 

by sheriffgali

Author's Comments:
"How times and people have changed. Noble duties were part of a person's humble life, not seeking imperial pomp of greed for power and mammon. In today's world we are caught up in materialism that has resulted in doldrums, pestilence and dolorousness, synonymous with perpetuity. [O! What pangs do  wretched mortals feel when we leave the path of righteousness]"