OUR SAME PAIN

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woman crying 

By  Teresa Clay

I do not wish to talk of White opinion and Black times

Or of news and slanted sides,

But I wish to talk of people.

Of life really; of love freely,

Of painful dreams and silly things,

Like endless jobs without meaning anything,

About exhausted hopes and endless regrets

Sunday forgiveness and weekly debts

May we talk of these things?

 

Lets not be distracted by lines of divide

Constructed with time meant to be blind

Yet being forced to breathe them… inside. Continue reading