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Legacy? Legacy? Do you know what the word "Legacy" means? Well, if you don't know, let me tell you what the dictionary says it means. Legacy: property or money left to some one by a will; something handed down from those who have gone before; a legacy of honor; our legacy, of freedom. In this poem, I'm not referring to material things like property or money, either of honor or freedom. I am referring to what a person has done with this life that God has given to him or her. Yes, [?] want to know what will your legacy be? This is a question that I would like to put [?] each and everyone of you? What will your legacy be? When you have finally cast off these mortal coils? When you have crossed the great divide? What will your legacy be? When you can no longer run life's race. When you no longer have a place; when you havent last completed the circle round and where an escape is no longer to be found. What will your legacy be? When you walk into the unknown all by yourself and alone, What will your legacy be? Stop for a moment and listen to me and answer this question if you can. What will your legacy be? When you must cross that great divide into a [?] from which none can hide. When you, alone, with no one by your side with no friend to leady you or to hold your hand? What will your legacy be? What deeds have you done in your lifetime which will be left for you to be remembered by? Will it be just a gray decaying tombstone standing alone in a cemetery it will it be, as it should be some act, some service or some deed that will insure that you will be remembered on and into the eternity of life's game? I ask you. What will your legacy be? Will it be the fact that you helped somebody along the way, during the time while you were here on earth? What will your legacy be? Will it be similar to the legacies left to our generation by people like Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglas, John Brown, Ida B. Wells, Mary Bethune and so many others who made of their lives a bridge for us to cross over on and whose lives were an inspiration for us of today to make of our lives bridges for future generations to cross over on? What will your legacy be? Legacy! Legacy! Let us stop for a moment and recall some of our people who left their lives as legacies to us, and who always will be honored and remembered. They were people like: Harriet Tubman: her legacy was the work that she did on the underground railroad in which she brought hundreds of our ancestors out of the bonds of slavery; and, Frederick Douglas: his legacy was the work that he did to help abolish slavery; and, Ida B. Wells: her legacy was the fact that she fought against the evil of black men being lynched in this country; and, Mary Mcleod Bethune: her legacy was that she worked for the education of our youth by starting on faith, a small school which grew to be a great university; and, Dr.Martin Luther King's Jr.: his legacy was that he devoted his life to fighting for full equality for our people; and, Sojourner Truth: her legacy was her fight for the liberation of and full equality for all women in our country; and, John Brown: His legacy was that he sacrificed his life for an end to slavery and for freedom of our people; and, Bessie Coleman: her legacy was that she became the first woman in America, black or white, to acquire a pilot's license; and, Paul Robeson: his legacy was that he was a renaissance man. He was a concert and folk singer, an athlete and a linguists and that he fought for the liberation of all oppressed people all over in the world; and poets, Langston Hughes and Margaret Walker: their legacies were the many inspirational poems that they wrote which expressed the soul of our people and Dr. W.E.B. DuBois. His legacy was his life long struggle for the liberation of our people in his actions his speeches and his writings; and, Dr. Carter G. Woodson: His legacy was the fact that he early brought to the attention of the world. The numerous and significant contributions of people of Africa and African descent to the attention of the world; and, Booker T. Washington: his legacy was the fact that he worked for the education of our people when he founded and opened Tuskegee Institute in Alabama; and, George Washington Carver: his legacy his significant and important accomplishments