Please view, share, and spread the word on my new YouTube release, "SEE."

https://youtu.be/VVu5o-ojf0k

Here is the poem in its entirety.

See our strength, 
See our pride. 
See our number, 
Unified. 

See our faces, 
See our hues. 
See our joys, 
See our blues.

 
See heads bald, 
See heads greyed. 
See heads locked, 
See waves and fades. 

See our brow, 
Tense and furrowed. 
Our question, “How long?” 
The answer, always: “tomorrow.” 

See our eyes, 
Watching the village. 
Searching our place 
Where others have privilege. 

See our gaze, 
See our vision. 
See our children? 
See our mission. 

See our mouths’ 
multi-lingual twitching. 
See our codes 
And our code-switching. 

See our cheeks, 
Leathered, worn, 
Smooth, five o’clock, 
Or beard-adorned. 

See our lips, 
Or do you dare 
suffer witness to 
the truths they bare? 

See engineers, linguists, 
doctors, preachers. 
Administrators, writers, 
IT, teachers. 

Entrepreneurs, realtors, 
too many others to call. 
Playing sixteenths in a quarter-note world, 
Creatives all. 

See our battles, 
See our scars. 
See secret wounds 
From secret wars. 

See our stance, 
See our years. 
See our humanity. 
See your fears. 

See chins up, chests out, 
See shoulders strong. 
See heads unbowed 
to our nation’s wrongs. 

My friends, my bruhs, 
My son. Me. 
Look in these faces. See us. 
See.

Thanks to my friend and fellow high school alum Leland Kimani Hall (Benjamin Banneker Academic High School, Washington, DC, class of 1988) who helped me create a new logo.  (I was class of '89.)  See the logo on the photos page.

Congratulations to Pat Mackin, guitarist for The Jazz Infuzion (JI).  Pat's original composition, "Latina," was featured on WAMU 88.5 FM (Washington area affiliate of National Public Radio (NPR)) as part of WAMU's Capital Soundtrack on 10 and 12 October 2017.  Capital Soundtrack features the music of metropolitan Washington area musicians. 

http://wamu.org/story/17/10/12/capital-soundtrack-jazz-infuzion-ps-music-group-boomscat/

"Latina" is always a crowd favorite at Jazz Infuzion performances.  JI plans to develop and incorporate more original compositions in our repertoire in the coming months.  You can check out "Latina" on the "Videos" page of my site.