Well, the sustainable development class is over but for some reason today, I wrote this poem. And I'm not really sure if it is complete but... it's something that I think busted out of me so I figured what better place to put it then here.
Boys
Boys the way your eyes are gilded remind me of the purest son.
Bold like children, you've walked the paths of men.
Damage in your mornings, hunger in your nights
I've met you and wondered how your smile stays so bright with a life so dark and..
darkest days turned to coldest nights,
you said God bless me, while I was trying to figure out where God left his saviors if not on your birth ground
Did he not place a crown of roses on your head
Did he not ask the sun and the earth to feed you
Did he not know that the day you were created there was love in those beds...
A love so sacred it needed to be hidden from the world,
he didn't know you or he would have known better...
He would have seen 200 years and more in your history
forbade you anymore suffering
he would have washed the sky clean and gave you angel wings
born to fly.
I cried when I thought these words, but you didn't understand why.
Boys didn't understand why I cried for them, when they cried for me.
They couldn't understand how I didn't know love and community.
How I couldn't hear music in the mornings that beat through the feet of my own labor.
Why I couldn't smile at my own neighbor.
They took me into their arms and asked why American women feel like stone.
Had God not blessed you with the softness of heart?
And as we both relayed our messages to God they returned themselves to sender.
We looked at eyes gilded, eyes dark
and asked to change the world we live in.
Asked to learn what had hurt you
Who had stolen you,
and found divinity in ourselves.
We, the garbage eaters, have never known a banquet so bountiful then the one of free exchange.
And I apologized to God that day for being led astray.
I apologized for not knowing that chokoraa referred to the stars,
the moon,
and the boys that turned into men by day...
You will be loved, you'll be protected, you will be beautiful.
