Who Are You?

Dawn Hancock 1946 (Oakland, California)



Who Are You ?

I see you , I see thru you
It's your language; It's your world
     Translucent     Transparent

From the cave you came to take away
knowledge ideas/ideals and make them yours
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At what cost matters not by beating, hanging
psychological imprisonment by means unnecessary
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Now the time has come for the Atonement of
the raping of African nations and past atrocities
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Neither Massa nor Master are you
not of this world not of the next
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Thin enough for light to pass thru But
not thick enough Not to see thru
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Answer; you biggots who still run rampant with a
more prevalent and arrogant mindlessness
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About this poem

In my opinion Black Lives do Matter.

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Written on January 01, 2020

Submitted on October 24, 2021

Modified on March 12, 2023

35 sec read
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Quick analysis:

Scheme a axb xcB xxB xxB axB xaB xcB
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 792
Words 117
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 1, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3

Dawn Hancock

This is my second poem; Life is not life when their is no love, under Dawn Williamson 2001 (Life without Love). more…

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