My challenge: to not be polarized,
my challenge - to not be right.
However easy it may seem,
how smooth the path along that route,
it never has delivered me
to the new place, the place
I long to go
My challenge: not to polarize.
So vastly better to be silent
than speak the worn out words
defining tribe
Mine is not a happy tribe to have come from -
the tribe of right (more oily and insidious
than the tribe of white,
which I may righteously deplore)
My task - dip seven times in Jordan,
learn the river's lessons,
come out clean.
©Wendy Mulhern
June 2, 2020
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