Intense feeling of Anger.
Intense feeling of Hurt.
Intense feeling of Grief.
Consuming the body.
“I am letting you go.
Go away I do not want you.”
The feelings are persistent!
“I have forgiven, why you are still here?
Are you mine?”
Anger and Sadness replied:
Feel us deep, with all your being.
Do not brush us away and judge us.
Feel what your mother and father felt deeply.
Feel what your ancestors felt.
You are the witness for their unresolved emotions.
You are feeling the depth of their emotions.
You now acknowledge what has not yet been acknowledged!
You are feeling us so your grandchildren will not have to experience those emotions.
Accept us, feel us deeply, and then let us go.
Free yourself, your ancestors and your future linage.
Copyright .2014 by Shervin Hojat
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I have seen colored people make a world of their own, they are stars, actors, actresses, news anchormen, news reporters, priests, pastors, game show hosts on the TV; and there are some who hold very important jobs in the society. I do not understand why the colored people keep bringing "Prejudice" to the table whenever they want to exercise violence on another. Sometimes, as you say in this poem, their parents have coached them to be hateful, carrying what they themselves have carried the hatred for years, and let their youngsters act out the revenge when it was their OWN hatred to begin with. Every young person was born innocent, they don't know anything unless it is taught to them by the parents. It's sad that when some parents would not feed confidence and positivity into the youngsters' minds, but only negativity and hatred instead.
Thank you once again for a very thought-provoking write!
Sandie
But that's just what some people do.
Ron