You may ask what place does poetry or celebrations of Black History month have in this blog that was created to encourage, inspire and motivate women to be their best at work and home. I would answer that I am an African-American woman so black history is my history and when you understand and appreciate it, you come closer to understanding and appreciating me. I would also answer that poetry, like all forms of artistic expression fuels our passions, gives us hope makes us think and makes our lives richer and better.
Vagabonds
We are the desperate
Who do not care,
The hungry
Who have nowhere
To eat
No place to sleep,
The tearless
Who cannot
Weep.
There is so much emotion in this poem. When I read the words, I see have a vision of poor desperate and hungry people looking for food and shelter. In my vision, I do not see them as not caring about their predicament. I have been rich and I have been poor. I know people who have been homeless and not known where they would sleep or what they would eat. Those people were never uncaring. They cared about their situations and wanted to do better.
I have been sad many times in my life. I have never been too tearless to weep. My business has found itself in desperate straights at one time or another, but things have never been hopeless. It does something to the heart and to the head to read about a person who is so desperate, hungry, and hopeless. Yet, these people are all around us. It seems that we have an obligation as entrepreneurs, as human beings to make the world better than we found it. Entrepreneurs with employees have an obligation to be fair to their employees and not to leave employees worse than they found them.
As an entrepreneur, think about what you do to make the world a better place. If it takes you more than two minutes to come up with an answer, perhaps there are some changes that you should be making at your organization.
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