A poem that touched my heart today

What Can I Teach My Kids About Being Black?
by urbanservant.blogspot.com posted 11/2007

What can I teach you about being Black?
Not much,
Because I'm not.
But I can teach you about pain,
And how to forgive peoples foolish words.
I can show you how to endure suffering,
So that through it Truth will be proclaimed.
I can love you and cry with you,
I can be the she-bear when you are threatened.
We can live where there is a rainbow of people,
and we can learn to love them together.
We can seek out the truth in history,
And not be afraid of the ugliness.
I can your heart and your eyes
to the painful reality that comes
clinging to the back of sin.

And in the end,
I can release you into your destiny,
And wait for you to come home,
With a fuller understanding of who you are
And what you are to be in your life.
Then I can listen as you teach me,
What it means to be Black.