Sun Song

Sun Song

By Timothy Melton

I Sol

Am older than

The Most ancient human heart

And to those of whom

my rags have browned to golden darkness,

Unto you I sing my sun song

unto you I bestow my blessings.

Look up manchild unto me

I will anoint your head with Love

I will fit you up unto my fiery bosom

And show truth that immutable

Truth that is not subject to change

I sing your lullaby

in sunsong

I bestow upon the manchild

my blessings.

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Timothy Melton wrote most of the poems in For Black Men Who Have Considered Living while incarcerated. They are "passionate and full of power." According to Richard Rowe, who wrote the foreword to this volume: "To write such a book of poems took tremendous discipline and courage. A book of this quality is never really expected to emerge from the dungeons of the criminal injustice system. Men, especially men of African descent, are supposed to waste away--return unfit and unable to maintain normal lifestyle.

"Timothy Melton is an exception to the rule. . . . I hope you will read each poem slowly and feel the power in each word."