Photo credit: Chad Madden

You have change: Your beauty is no longer,

One color: It has change and adorn with multi

Color for the better:

While some feels forgotten, lost—alone,

Still sorrow and the pain that ‘good love,

Will never be found, ‘yet, at their door:

Mama Africa—shine, shine, shine and Smile!

As you change in your glorious, magnificent color

—Let true love find, in the hearts, of all mankind:

And I will pretend, for now, I have reached,

God marvelous array sky, that I too, have begun,

To dance, smile, as God lift my spirit, I have begun,

to soar, to Shine, Shine, Shine!!!

Empress Journee