Poetry Thursday, Black History Month

Let Me Not Lose My Dream
 ~Georgia Douglas Johnson

Let me not lose my dream, e'en though I scan the veil
      with eyes unseeing through their glaze of tears,
Let me not falter, though the rungs of fortune perish
      as I fare above the tumult, praying purer air,
Let me not lose the vision, gird me, Powers that toss
      the worlds, I pray!
Hold me, and guard, lest anguish tear my dreams away!

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on December 8, 2019, by the Academy of American Poets.