Do you know who I am?
Do you know who I am??
Can
You see yourself in me
If only opportunity
Were at my fingertips I would come alive
And rise
All these years, my tears
Watering this soil which gives nothing back in all my toil
Pain coiled
Around every limb of my being
Never seeing
Any hope come up with the morning sun
Undone
Before my existence

But you have not been deaf to my weeping
Troubles without number have surrounded me keeping
Me down
And like the dry cracked land soaks in a fresh rain
My soul drinks
And I tell you
A crushed spirit will never endure
But compassion is enough to allure
Me to rise

Can you see yourself in me?
You see
The struggles that you speak of
Would be joys embraced
Just the chance to chase
after dreams, to open doors
To soar
My whisper given the chance to roar
I am the future!
Because of you my heart is now sutured!
Can you hear it?
Beating to the drum of redemption
Giving me connection to direction because of your affection
Rejection is no longer my lot
Caught by a love I never knew existed
Gifted with colored dreams

Do you know who I am?
This soil once a snare to my soul
Now surges hope through my body
And with each step now I know
These hands will show My nation the road
To prosperity
And how to live in expectancy with clarity
My identity
Now clothed with purpose

Do you know who I am?
Can
You see
yourself in me
If only opportunity
Were at my fingertips I would come alive
And rise

– Andrea Vaughan