The Bluestone Review 2025

Children’s Section

Education Is Key Dakota Blanchett

For 9 years, I rattled my chains, Unafraid to bark at the end, For my collar of slavery

fell, And the mind filled with all that could be House is to hope as I was to a welcome mat. Little hands grasped at salt bags, so heavy on the ground, Then.. My hands were all crackly and bloody And my mouth was dry and it was hard to breath After that I spent the next 16 years, Listening to the teachers give us lectures. So that way when I grew up I could be one of those teachers I was knocking on the doors Next thing you know I was helping slaves, Knowing how to trade

and, They are now listening to me lecture on how to help them. As the sun went down and the moon was coming up, You could hear the katydids chirping, While the adults was coming to school and, The children were going home. In the end while I was hunkered down to listen to them yap But, It worked out in the end I founded the National Negro Buisness League I helped mature Tuskegee University In the end, Education is always gonna be your way to find light. With it, we place the key into the lock Which clamps our chains, Off come the restraints, Yet still we hold on to Education’s key.

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