I am not alone
amidst and through
this meander
of meaning and void.
today, I confront, self
through reflecting lens
today, I challenge
my most cherished isms
and the ideologies
through which I exist
in time

I am not alone.
for I have descended
from great ancestry.
amidst and through
a melanin clade
today, I confront, self
to interrogate and negotiate
existence and essence
through the opaque lens
of mundane striving
& being, in time

I am not alone,
this is my song of ascent
through prisms of shared descent
I exist, harmoniously
as grey and white matter
as woman and as black.
for there is a race greater than skin
and there are bonds thicker than blood.
as I meander to tell the tale
of spirit and of living
of being in and through time

ABOUT THE POET:

Yewande Akinse is a poet and author of two collections of poems titled: A tale of being, of green and of ing (2019) and Voices: A collection of poems that tell stories (2016).