F.I.R.E. Newsletter Q3 2017 Quarter 4 2017 | Page 3

F. I. R. E. Fully Informed, Reverenced & Encouraged NEWSLETTER It Is Our Desire for Every Soul To Catch On Fire! Quarter 4, 2017 Black History 365 Days A Year He wrote what he saw “in Lincoln’s eyes” And to some of us reading it was no surprise That we were certainly in for a treat When Barack H. Obama rose to his feet Remember when we heard him speak At that Democratic National Convention His remarks got rave reviews in ’04 Much more than honorable mention And during his first presidential campaign When we craved to hear him even more Remember he told us that we … we … Were the ones we’d been waiting for When he cajoled we’re ” … a nation of immigrants … … strangers once, too,” he stood tall Prodding us to come together as one, for “Embracing tribe dooms us all” From his loftiest words heard in a consoling speech: “Faith doesn’t mean that you don’t have doubt” To his hysterically funny two words to the press: “Obama, Out!” Sometimes he delivered oration in a hymn Often his words caught us all on fire This man seems to have come out of history In colonial days, he’d have been a town crier We love this man, his mind, voice, and tone We see he’s armed us better than we were before and when we wonder if we’ll be able to go it alone We whisper we are the ones we’ve been waiting for And isn’t that the proof of the orator he’s been And the fact we seldom see his kind We’re not sure which of our heartstrings he pulled But we know he also left his words in our minds And this year we thank him Genuinely, without measure For being Orator-in-Chief And our national treasure - Jacqueline OBoomer Our 44th President Barack Hussein Obama