yet something ancient shifted.
thick with names once swallowed by tide
and numbers carved where faces should have been.
vast enough to bend centuries forward.
They had carried the weight before.
They kept records no ledger ever held:
the languages torn into silence,
the prayers pressed into darkness
This was not a moment of closure.
when the harm learned how to reproduce—
There were those who shifted uneasily,
when comfort depends on forgetfulness.
And there were those who wept without tears,
but repair measured in honesty,
in paths rebuilt where roads were broken on purpose.
Paper remembered absent signatures.
Stone remembered where it was taken from
Children yet unborn leaned in,
The words did not promise salvation.
They did not condemn the living,
but they challenged what the living inherit
but in actions yet to be chosen:
to return,
to restore,
to invest not only in memory
but in balance.
The ocean did not applaud.
Neither did the dead.
They waited—
as they always have—
to see if naming the truth
would finally lead
to answering it.
About the Creator
TREYTON SCOTT
Top 101 Black Inventors & African American’s Best Invention Ideas that Changed The World. This post lists the top 101 black inventors and African Americans’ best invention ideas that changed the world. Despite racial prejudice.
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