[I just had to post this in response to Marjorie’s excellent post about MLK, Jr.]
Mikaela says in 2003:
Connect the dots
Injustice
to
Injustice
Cultivate the will
the fortitude
the stomach
to call shit as you see it
name it
change it
arrange it
Complicit in the world-as-it-is
is our silence
We trade “solace” for “privacy”
“community” for “solitude”
hide our gifts
not to feel powerless
close our eyes
not to feel blind
believe stories
not to feel lied to
Our ears wither
with disuse
Our fears grow
with exercise
Our hands
severed with knives of our own creation
search by themselves
for the necks of our oppressors
And we
all of us children
learn what it is
we don’t want to know.
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