Yes yes and yes!
As the world mourns the death of the ultimate soldier of love, Mr. Nelson Mendela, another legend is giving us just what we need to help our grieving process.
Dr. Maya Angelou.
The esteemed author and poet released a new poem dedicated to Mandela “on behalf of the American people” and as expected it’s heart warming and beautiful.
In the poem titled, “His Day Is Done” Angelou recites:
“No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn.
“Yes, Mandela’s day is done. Yet we, his inheritors, will open the gates wider for reconciliation. And we will respond generously to the cries of blacks and whites, Asians, Hispanics, the poor who live piteously on the floor of our planet,”
She continues:
“Nelson Mandela’s day is done. We confess it in tearful voices. Yet we lift our own to say thank you. Thank you, our Gideon. Thank you, our David, our great, courageous man. We will not forget you. We will not dishonor you. We will remember and be glad that you lived among us, that you taught us and that you loved us all.”
Grab your Kleenex and check out the moving words in full in the video above.
