Michaela Renee Solomon Poet Free verse

Misshapen Characters

Misshapen Characters 

They stood overlooking us like monuments 

Carved wrong, titles raised, Integrity cropped 

Down to a particle.  

Their  shoulders were uneven- One Organized 

With authority, The other clamorous where

Empathy be required to have lived. They

Walked through corridors  that extended 

To fit their swollen names, each plaque 

Polished more glaring then the truth on

The other side of it. Their decisions fell

From great heights,  heavy as stone,

Landing hardest on the ones who never

Learned to cite loud enough to be heard

Spiraling. 

They measured us with rulers arched by

Bias, weighed us on measure titled by

Convenience,  and called the imbalance 

System methodology.  Their power grew

Disproportionate,  A skyscraper built on 

Crooked joists. Inclination further each

Year toward self-interest away from the

People holding up the cornerstone with

Tired hands. 

Yet even Misshapen Characters cast dimness 

And our began to rise, expansion long across 

The ground,  evoking them that height is not

The same as honor,  and soaring is not the

Same as standing tall.

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