Fill your cup and watch it grow,
Fill your cup and see it flow,
Fill your cup, enjoy the glow,
Fill your cup, give yourself time to slow.
Slow down from the race,
Slow down from the knowing,
Slow down from the doing,
and just start being.
Be who you are,
Be who you aren't,
Be who you wish,
Always be true.
Smile at friends,
Smile at family,
Smile at strangers drinking coffee in alleys.
Drink coffee in sunkissed mornings,
Drink wine in calm still evenings,
Drink hot chocolate and spread out under duvets.
Spread the love from your cup, and watch the cups of others spread over you.
Fill your cup and watch it grow,
Fill your cup and see it flow,
Fill your cup, enjoy the glow,
Fill your cup, give yourself time to slow.
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Charlotte Eden Morris
Big imagination, happy heart, black and white words.
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Authors note: I originally published this with no explanatory note, after a conversation with my partner in which we both agreed that no one would think these were my views, it was sufficiently over the top for it to be evidently a caricatured collection of some of the "microaggressive" things that can be said by people of one race to those of another. And lets be clear, I had in mind a white man talking to a black man in a country in which white is the majority. I wrote this after a conversation I had at work about the idea of microaggressions, in which we thought about who they were micro for - for the speaker, each of these comments may feel "micro", for the receiver, maybe not. I chose some of these lines carefully and deliberately, most of them are things I have heard said. But I wanted to come back and make absolutely clear that this is not a poem representing my views. We thought I didn't need to, but perhaps its not actually so very over the top as a caricature. Perhaps its a little too close to the bone. Perhaps that I would assume otherwise is in itself an illustration of my privilege.
By Hannah Mooreabout 15 hours ago in Poets
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