So summer wasn’t actually what I expected. When I say summer I’m referring to the period between Mid-March to August
*follow that timeline for the sake of this blog ;)*
I had a lot of conversations over the summer about the deaths of Ahmuad Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd and about the protests that occured as a result. Some of them were great, empathetic, humbling and others were quite frankly not pleasant. I also encountered a lot of comments on social media that made me question a lot of people and their beliefs.
I hit a wall guys… this wall that left me so exhausted…so exhausted that I avoided doing thesis work because I would have to confront these issues, friendships, schools of thought.
So it was a rollercoaster but that really pushed me to write a lot of poetry…I mean A LOT! I haven’t written so much in such a short amount of time.
So here is a poem…for all the black souls lost as a result of police brutality, racism and ill-treatment, this is for you.
“a moment of silence for all the black bodies we’ve laid to rest in hashtags and buried in the cycle of trends.”
‘Silence please [10:07pm]’ by Sola Olowo-Ake