http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/07/his-day-is-done-dr-maya-angelou-writes-moving-poem-in-honor-of-nelson-mandela/
In the poem, His Day is Done, Angelou mourns Mandela’s death, praises him as a modern-day David who slew a mighty Goliath and a Gideon, who freed the South African people. She also marvels at his endurance of racism and imprisonment.
Angelou, 85, has allowed the US state department to circulate the poem in 15 languages, as a tribute to Mandela “on behalf of the American people”.In the YouTube video, Angelou, wearing dark glasses, says Americans send their souls to South Africans “as you reflect upon your David, armed with a mere stone, facing down the mighty Goliath – your man of strength, Gideon, emerging triumphant.”
i guess for the nay sayers having two Black heroes in the same century is just too much to bear and give them respect too, are we looking for too much or are they that little?
She continues: “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 says.“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 dishonour you. We will remember and be glad that you lived among us, that you taught us and that you loved us all.
as well as those who would turn up their nose's at this article and disrespect his memory, the epitome of hate.
