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8/14/2019 1:18:54 PM
Living Contradiction Poem Critique	A contradiction is the blood in my veins A contradiction are all of my names Complicated is my family tree A contradiction is what defines me English, French, Italian, Jew Spanish, Scottish, and Native too My family has helped this country grow They fought on both sides of the Alamo Culture against culture, tribe against tribe Shards of each one are now living inside History of many wars lives in my blood All of them reconciled through the bonds of love Now a mutt is my official definition Generations created this contradiction To divide is the goal of society Trying to separate what lives inside me But I am no fool, I know my worth I am a child of Mother Earth Division does not exist in her eyes To her, all are one, Land, Ocean, and Skies And so, though white, brown, and red are my description Your separation is the true contradiction
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8/14/2019 1:18:54 PM

A contradiction is the blood in my veins
A contradiction are all of my names
Complicated is my family tree
A contradiction is what defines me
English, French, Italian, Jew
Spanish, Scottish, and Native too
My family has helped this country grow
They fought on both sides of the Alamo
Culture against culture, tribe against tribe
Shards of each one are now living inside
History of many wars lives in my blood
All of them reconciled through the bonds of love
Now a mutt is my official definition
Generations created this contradiction
To divide is the goal of society
Trying to separate what lives inside me
But I am no fool, I know my worth
I am a child of Mother Earth
Division does not exist in her eyes
To her, all are one, Land, Ocean, and Skies
And so, though white, brown, and red are my description
Your separation is the true contradiction

pages: 1