Acknowledging Privilege
With empathy
we begin to understand
the urgency for change
that charity begets kindness
With gratitude
and heightened awareness
redemption is possible
atonement necessary
With regret we acknowledge guilt
for all in proximity
and challenge
our belief system.
A collaborative poem from workshop on privilege
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Forward and backward and forward and……
This is stellar work.
Quality of content and form.
Stellar.
Exquisite.
Thanks Laverne, for the poem and for inviting me to participate in the workshop. It was very good.
There is so much truth here.
The road is hard
but there’s footsteps to follow
I love how you used the parallelism common in prayers, palms, and eulogies