Emancipation
Proclamation
Freedom
But is it real?
Separation
Within a nation
Fighting
How do we heal?
Generation
After generation
Inherits
The way they feel.
Discrimination
No toleration
Hatred
Starts to steal.
Renovation
Without cessation
Needed
To break the seal.
Animation
With determination
Layers
Begin to peel.
Elevation
Cooperation
Exposes
What some want to conceal.
Information
Open communication
Humanity
Can start to reveal.
Education
Edification
Knowledge
Power to appeal.
Imploration
A new gestation
Hope
Fills us with zeal.
Appreciation
Of our creation
Equality
Is the only deal.
Emancipation
Proclamation
Freedom
Only we can make it real!
©Erica Lea
Originally written January 17, 2002, and this is its first web appearance. I wrote it in part because of the way the world had become after 09/11, and it still seems pertinent to today's world.
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