Sharon Attipoe-Dorcoo
- Poetry
- Aug 8, 2023
- 1 min read
Updated: Sep 5, 2023
Poem & Collage / Racial Justice
As a Black mom, the reason I do my work in service to racial justice is because of my babies who are growing up in tumultuous times, and still have to navigate systems that persist in marginalizing people of our skin color.
POEM EXCERPT
A world apart
Oppressor and oppressed
Find the threads of life
A fragility of death and rebirth
Oppression claims dominance
A fallacy of superiority
Forgetting the human connections that bind us
Is a thin line of love
A heart full of hate and greed
To conquer not things thereof
But a claim to a life not once has formed
The Almighty gives a rope as far as eyes cannot see
Because the world was made to end
And end it shall be
Accountability awaits each soul
Oppressed forced to live in the margins
But weary not and survive
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