The following poem was read by Terrance O. Edgar Sr. at the groundbreaking ceremony of Sankofa House, the beginning stages of a much bigger BOSS project called Ursula Sherman Village. A place where our homeless folks can receive a multitude of services onsite. To learn more about the village click here: http://www.self-sufficiency.org/village.html

Putting Down Roots

By Terrance O. Edgar Sr.

Let us rejoice at this breaking of the earth to build upon this ground that will house many.

May all that will live here when complete live in peace and fellowship as one community.

May the children that will play children's games be safe from all negative vices that plagues so many of America's town and cities.

Putting down roots that will be a home to the homeless once housed. Housed for it is a right of all upon this earth to have a roof over their bodies.

The cold, the rain, the heat the streets should not be conditions for one to be placed in without a home.

Putting down roots so that memories can be made so that they may be remembered, of all the ones that will live here when the time arrives.

Putting down roots, the roots that will bring forth branches and leaves. And as we are all that tree, it's limbs, it's leaves, it's roots. Putting down roots.

 

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