Opening Skit Lyrics

Mhysa Opening Skit

Won't you celebrate with me what I have shaped into a kind of life?
I had no model
Born in Babylon, both black and woman
What did I seek to be except myself?
I made it up
Here on this bridge, between star shine and clay
My one hand holding tight my other hand
Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed
Lucille Clifton, 1993