Mayor Harold Washington
Mayor. Worldman. Historyman.
Beyond steps that occur and close,
your steps are echo-makers.
You can never be forgotten.
We begin our health.
We enter the Age of Alliance.
This is our senior adventure.
Copyright Credit: Gwendolyn Brooks, "Mayor Harold Washington" from Mayor Harold Washington. Copyright © 1983 by Gwendolyn Brooks. Reprinted by permission of Estate of Gwendolyn Brooks.
Source: Blacks (Third World Press, 1994)