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Sofia Rapisarda Poem
I will love you
Regardless if you hate me because I'm not white
I will love you
Even if your nickname for me is Spic
I will love you
because I can't remember a time when putting my energy into HATING you has EVER brought me closer to happiness
I will hug you
Because there is no reason to fear skin darker than yours
I will embrace you
You don't have to wonder why my hair reaches for the sky like a tree and doesn't flow down like a river
You can talk to me
It's not my job to educate you but it is my job to care because I can't remember the last time I've seen someone help anothet up! Instead of looking the other way or pushing. them. down.
You can love WITH me
I love my culture and I will gladly open my arms to show you salsa, bomba, merengue, bachata and Sofrito
I will not turn the other cheek
Because you never gave my ancestors the free will to turn it
You took and kept ON TAKING!
I am not the immigrant
YOU ARE
I did not come here, you brought me here
You are not american, the people you call Indians
are
You may have been born on this soil but your family tree grows elsewhere and on dirt you probably have never seen
My ancestors told me to tell you
That I love you
and to show you the kindness you never showed them or us
No matter what color you may be or where you come from
We are still born from the same ancestors
We are all humans
I will love you
because we are still family
Copyright © Sofia Rapisarda | Year Posted 2018
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Sofia Rapisarda Poem
I couldn’t bend my knee 100 degrees today at Therapy
It’s been a month since surgery and I still can’t get it to bend
10
more
degrees.
10 More Degrees
10 More Degrees and
the trajectory of that officer’s trigger finger could have saved a black life
not extinguished one
10 more Degrees
and in 85 years the sun will burn away all the remaining residue of a disease called The Human Race from the face of the Earth
10 More Degrees
given to the right students who don’t have citizenship could change the white face of America
10 more degrees
and it’s already gonna be one of the hottest summers for ICE to melt away any existence of hispanic and latino families
Just like the conquistadors and Christopher Columbus did
10 More Degrees
of 1st Degree murder and it’s not just white people taking away black lives
because out of millions of people
8 were adult men and 1 of them was a child and all the rest watched silently
10 More Degrees
to your left and you’ll see what was once the encampment that killed thousands of innocent children who did nothing wrong but were born mexican
10 more Degrees
and could be able to walk without crutches freely
But I’m grateful I lost that ability
because it gave me the opportunity
to drop out of college and fulfill my dreams of performing poetry
10 more degrees
forward toward my future and I will shake the ignorant awake because
POC LIVES DO MATTER,
THE WORLD IS OBLITERATING ITSELF, GENOCIDE IS HAPPENING RIGHT IN FRONT OF US AND ALL ANYONE IS WORRIED ABOUT IS Melania Trumps ing jacket and why Kanye Omari West is best friends with a monster who IS NOT MY PRESIDENT
Copyright © Sofia Rapisarda | Year Posted 2018
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