They tell us that anything is possible
They tell us how we may rise from our circumstances
That with hard work, we can have lives like theirs
Unaware that the "circumstance" to which they want to save us from
are the result of their actions
or more rightly so, their inaction
They tell us that the past is the past
As they harvest the dividends of our ancestor's pain
of our pain
They tell us to forget the actions of people who look like them
but have long passed
For the injustice we "claim" to experience today
are the results of the dead
the ones who cannot be held to account
They claim they are powerless against their privilege
Expecting us to be empowered in our marginalisation
About the Creator
Steph Lm
I write short stories and poems about my family, crime, society and love.
Sitting in DNA Soup
I am sitting in “DNA soup”- actually, a Jacuzzi at the Melia Hotel in Nassau, Bahamas. It might as well be a soup though, from the amount of people sitting in it. I’d wager that if you were to take a ladle from that hot tub and send it to a DNA testing facility, you’d have genetics from every corner of the planet.
By Kelley Stead6 days ago in Wander
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