The language of love
Is best spoken
Through devotion
And service—
Being of service to God
By devoted service unto
Fellow Sisters and Brothers…
Speaking to self
Through contrary actions
Leads to self-oppressive hate
Resulting in coward acts
Killing fellow-hued oppressed
Because of fear
In dealing with the real forces
Of oppression in our village hoods;
Through the true language
Of love, we must come to foster
A new sable…ebony…black ethics
That targets the true oppressive forces
Seeking to destroy us
And preventing us from waging
The proper war bringing
Freedom coming to be…when
We take the risk to claim its liberation.
Let us be ever strengthened in the truth
And the love that has been bequeathed
From Him who is love and in whose love
There is no abiding place for festering fear,
For such love cannot be subtracted nor divided;
Such love cannot be lost, broken or taken away;
Such transcending love can only be multiplied:
Today, may this mattering love awaken and grace us.