A Change Is Gonna Come

A poem by Andrew Blash, a homeless person, included in his letter to Linh Dinh entitled "Dispatch from the Front Line of Poverty and the Doorsteps of Hell", and posted on Dinh's website.

A Change Is Gonna Come

I was born by the river in a little tent

Oh, and just like the river I've been running ever since


It's been a long, a long time coming

But I know a change gon' come, oh yes it will


It's been too hard living, but I'm afraid to die

Cause I don't know what's up there beyond the sky


It's been a long, a long time coming

But I know a change gon' come, oh yes it will


I go to the movie and I go down town

Somebody keep telling me don't hang around


Its been a long, a long time coming

But I know a change gon' come, oh yes it will


Then I go to my brother

And I say, "Brother, help me please."

But he winds up knockin' me

Back down on my knees


There been times when I thought I couldn't last for long

But now I think I'm able to carry on


It's been a long, a long time coming

But I know a change gon' come, oh yes it will