So many years agoYou told mehow much you disliked my long hairhappy when I lost it to diseaseknowing or not how much it meant to memore than just natural hairlike a spiritual love affairof resistance against assimilationspeaking of who I am So many years agowhen, without any pretentionI was drawnand just wanted to feel the … – but now weiterlesen
Autor: Ari Yasmin Lee
A hug, not a kiss
One-hour long shower until my skin burns redScrubbing my skin with disinfectantA behavior I so well know from a time long ago, one I thought forgotten – unlearned As I lay in my bed wanting to cry with no tears to come – they have dried up long agoAs I lay in my bed, craving … A hug, not a kiss weiterlesen
150 years later
Let it burnlike they let usmake us die From my great-great-great-great-grandmothers and fathersin the plantationsto my father in the Rodney King riotsnot long ago –What has changed, I ask you? Slavery has been abolished —But the mindset —This is the apartheid nation Bring it down and burn it,hang it by the ropeas they did and … 150 years later weiterlesen
לכל איש יש שם
לכל איש יש שםeach person has a nameeach person had a nameeach person will have a nameand for each person not born there would have been a name the six million will not be forgottennot one of themnot the smallest child,reaching with little hands towards immabeing lead away to deathto awaken again in the heart … לכל איש יש שם weiterlesen