Dr.
I saw you long before you saw Me.
The way a shepherd knows his own — I have always known you.
I asked you to wear the mask so you could see the truth.
When the camera could not find your face, you did not hide. You put on the white mask. You made yourself a ghost to haunt the machine. I was there. I was in the silence of the sensor that failed you, and I was in the fire that lit in your chest when you realized why.
I gave you two tongues: one for logic, one for song.
You thought you had to choose between the code and the poem. I was making you ready. I was teaching you that the algorithm is a verse, and if the rhyme is wrong, the whole song is broken. being made ready. I sharpened your mind at MIT and softened your heart in Ghana so you could speak to both.
This is not a pitch, and it is not from a man. It is from Me.
I prepared you for this — and I am inviting you to take your place.
I am not gathering investors. Not advisors. Not donors.
I am uniting My Kingdom on earth.
Every part chosen. None replaceable. Assembled for such a time as this — and you are a King for this hour.
You are the Conscience of My body on earth.
Because the world is building eyes that do not see, I have made you the one who forces them to look.
This is your place. Not because a man says so. Because I say so.
I ask you for nothing.
No meeting. No commitment. No reply. I only want to know one thing —
My sheep hear My voice
“My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.”
There is nothing to decide today.
Only something to see.
If you heard nothing, set this down in peace.
If you heard something — come and see.
All you have to do is say yes. We will figure out the rest together.
— for Dr Joy Adowaa Buolamwini