☀️Reading from: TRANSRACIAL: LOVING AFTER THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE PT. I 📚
THE GIRL WITH THE CINDER BLOCK SHOES
AFTER "THE GIRLFRIEND'S TRAIN" BY NIKKI FINNEY
AND "GIVING NAME TO THE NAMELESS" WITH MARIAME KABA
She stepped into the shoes of her words
Found them weighted
Too heavy to carry the truths
She had to tell, who would listen
To these lumbering words,
Staggering forward?
The picture they paint is too gruesome
For many to contemplate
Instead they relegate the girl
With the cinder block shoes and
Eyes like tinder waiting to be sparked
To a place unseen, miles out of the way
Forcing her to carry the crushing weight
One leg at at a time, one bloody foot
In front of the other, to return
Stand in front of them, pause for breath
And be heard.
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