Alex Conall, social justice bard (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
alexconall) wrote2014-03-23 08:17 pm
alexconall) wrote2014-03-23 08:17 pm
Justice
They call me blind, blindfolded,
and I worry that it's true.
Do I hear each voice that calls
you to me and me to you?
Or do I only hear the loudest,
whitest, straightest, richest men?
I want to be as I am named,
not aiding powerful again.
I should take off the blindfold.
I should look and try to see
why marginalized people
think I'm not real, not me.
I hope, as Dr. King once said,
and I dream as once did he,
that I am not bankrupt,
not blind. But can I see?
Justice by Alex Conall is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
and I worry that it's true.
Do I hear each voice that calls
you to me and me to you?
Or do I only hear the loudest,
whitest, straightest, richest men?
I want to be as I am named,
not aiding powerful again.
I should take off the blindfold.
I should look and try to see
why marginalized people
think I'm not real, not me.
I hope, as Dr. King once said,
and I dream as once did he,
that I am not bankrupt,
not blind. But can I see?
Justice by Alex Conall is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.