Struggling To Reach The Mountaintop Poem by Hebert Logerie

We are still sweating and struggling
To reach the mountaintop
We are still marching and fighting
To get to the mountaintop
We are backstabbed all the time
We're told audaciously that a dime
Is worth or valued more than our lives
Despite the deep pains and the long dives
We're strong, resilient ready to rumble
To mix it up, to tumble and not to fumble
The ball at the end of the last quarter
We will fall and we will get up stronger
Smarter and more determined to reach
The mountaintop, by walking on the beach
To encourage the forgotten people to join in
Because we will walk together and create a scene
That the world has never seen. We will walk
In unity. We will be forever united. We will talk
And chat as siblings and we'll chant as we labor on and struggle
To reach the mountaintop. This is only the onset. We'll huggle
Juggle and snuggle. We will suffer to become harder and tougher
We'll be stopped by nothing: the huffers, the bluffers and the weather
The hypocrites, liars, cheaters, hillbilly criminals, mobsters, rioters
Bad actors, tyrants, supremacists, goons, buffoons and invaders
We shall reach the mountaintop before long, in due time
With God on our side, we can't be stopped. A dream isn't a crime
Hope is by our side. God gave us the strength, the vitality
And the determination. We will get there surely and timely
We know that it will not be easy to reach the mountaintop
We'll make a few shortstops and we shall use our backstop
At the last resort. We will get there soon, very soon
We'll reach the mountaintop under the brightest moon.

Copyright © January 16,2021, Hébert Logerie, All rights reserved
Hébert Logerie is the author of several collections of poems.