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Poetry
Street Roots • May 5-11, 2017
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Standing Together
Can We Stand Together
by Aileen McPherson
by Flash
We Stand Together, is this true,
When hate is the debate, how we rate all races,
History documents many cases, so why’s the world so racist,
What caused all this hatred.
The time I felt alone was of definite insignificance
based on authenticity of grey matter
On alone and rejection was really my insistence on being
Connected to an artificial
A violent whore because they never wanted to interact
to begin with
So I was cast through time and space
Never alone, just available for authenticity
knowing not where it would manifest.
Loving the potential and staring into the void
being swallowed
and birthed again
Great universes manifesting in my isolation birthing
formalities of authenticity.
Taming the words of the infinite
my art is impotent
hold more worth than
truth
We say we care, yet still we stare at any difference
Another shares, why can’t we accept a different sect
We are not classes, our spiritualities massive,
With cultures expansive, all this knowledge is fantastic
So why do we allow fanatics to dictate how we
Understand semantics.
We all can stand tall for underneath it all are skeletons
Call, let there be peace for all,
Our skins the same, merely the pigments are changed
While others have a need that requires a greater change
Underneath it all we are still the same.
From birth to death our journeys are bereft,
Knowledge meant to help and accept are smashed underfoot
By those who would rather profit
From our debts, fears, and neglects.
So make a stand, it must be grand,
Take it across the land, let the ones who control our land
know we will no longer stand
For the inequality that spreads through our lands.
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