Born in Texas,
Raised a sharecropper
Working hard,
Working extra
Tenth child of
A strong thirteen,
Born on 1892
Thriving as a teen.
My dream, to fly
The first black woman
To fly so high
My dream awoken;
1921, a pilots license
The first
African American
Flying to countries
Far, far away
Flying to places
I’d never dream.
In the sky,
My hard life afloat
A school,
A school for children.
My dream I never saw
Crashed, darkness
Drowning in the wind
My vision worsens
As I fall
Through my air
As the pilot,
The first,
An African American.