[Stylist] a poem

[anniecms64 at gmail.com]

Hi all,

This poem was written after  a few diversity seminars. The context is that I
struggle with wanting to be a part of the diversity solution but often feel
because of being white, I find myself afraid to join in even though my heart
aches to help.

Thanks for reading.

On the inside

By Ann Chiappetta

 

 

White on the surface

Experience-tinted

Female- Pigmented

Painted with blind, somber Hues 

 

I met Ugliness 

Who  yelled  

Threatened 

rejected

and Spat.

 

Fear  is Shame; shame is fear.

Words pressed with plastic keys

Are the hope released

Dispersed in the collective atmosphere.

2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ann Chiappetta, Author

Anniecms64 at gmail.com

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Chiappetta

"We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is
waiting for us." 

*	 Joseph Campbell

 

 

 

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