Me to a friend

With Langston Hughes quotes

Let me tell you, my friend,
You’ve got to stand up to society
Step out of the shadows
And become colorful as the Northern lights.
Don’t let people bring you down
Because
“Life...ain’t been no crystal stair.”
It’s a jagged mountain,
It crumbles,
And scars,
It’s tall,
And soft,
And rocky.
Keep climbing it, don't look down.
If you fall, someone will help you.
If someone else falls, lend them a hand.
This is life,
And the society is against it.

Look up, there is a long way to go.
“To build a ‘home of the free’”
To ‘grow deep like the rivers,”
To dig up the 'deferred dreams'
And lift up the heavy load.
Turn that ‘I can’t’ to ‘I will,’
Then ‘I am doing it,’
Then ‘I’ve achieved it.’

Listen to people's complaints,
And don’t react badly,
Because society
Will put you down
And take away your color
Then you will fall,
Fall in the dried up river of dreams.

Once a dream is achieved, my friend
It will add a gallon of water
To the river below.
That river is your life
Make it flow with accomplishments;
With your sweat...blood...faith and pain.
Let your sweat be the salt
That helps carry you when you fall.
Let the blood and faith
Give life to the river.
And your pain be
The rocks at the bottom of it,
So they won’t weigh you down anymore.
Let your soul mature deep like that river.

Once that river is flowing
With your once completed dreams
You will reach the top of the mountain
To the homeland of the free,
The free?
The free of what you ask,
Of failure.
And up at on top of the mountain,
Will be a house as big as your heart.
And you will be the most dazzling one of your life.
That is all I have to tell you my friend.