James Baldwin
Some Days
Some days worry
Some days glad
Some days more than make you mad
Some days
Some days more than shine
When you see what's coming
On down the line

Some days, you say
"Oh, not me, never"
Some days, you say
"Bless God forever"
Some days, you say
"Curse God and die"
And the day comes when you wrestle
With that lie

Some days tussle
Then some days groan
And some days
Don't even leave a bone
Some days you hassle
All alone

I don't know, sister
What I'm sayin'
Nor do no man
If he don't be prayin'
I know that love is the only answer
And the tight-rope lover
The only dancer
When the lover come off the rope today
The net which holds him is how we pray
And not to God's unknown
But to each other
The falling mortal is our brother

Some days leave
Some days grieve
Some days you almost don't believe
Some days believe you
Some days don't
Some days believe you
And you won't

Some days worry
Some days mad
Some days more than make you glad
Some days, some days
More than shine
Witnesses
Coming on down the line
Witnesses
Coming on down the line