Experiment
Do you ever feel like your purpose is dependent on those around you?
I am the first
First child, first grandkid, first niece
The prototype
The role model
Being crushed under the weight of responsibility.
My skin turns me into a walking movement
A library on black rights
A testing ground on what is appropriate to say.
Being a woman means my rights are treated as privileges
Means doctors can choose if they want to hear me
Means my body is meant to produce and nothing else.
It feels like my existence is an experiment
Har far can we push the sad black girl?
What’s her limit?
Using me to see how to treat those after me.
Its a game that I can’t win and most definitely won’t lose.
I may cry in private but when I walk outside
Head held high
I am a role model
I am a teacher
I am a movement.
Even if I never asked to be.
About the Creator
Imani Walton
I used to write all the time and someway, somehow lost my way. Here’s me finding my passion again! I hope you enjoy
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