Would you?

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Were it you
Would I find you
Straddling the truth until it
Fell in line with
Your design?

Until it sputtered its last
Unapologetic slurs
Would you stay by the ugly
And violent mess it becomes?

Would you try?

Would you risk every sense
Of a life you've yet to live
To see a truth through to the end
Would you
Carry the courage your past self
Could only have longed to
Believe in?


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Author's note: Black Lives Matter. Don't give up on seeking justice. Now or ever.

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