Sugar
by
Toni Truesdale
Celebrate
overcoming the past
All
People of Color
Is
it freedom at last?
We
begin each morning
Sweetening
our cups of coffee and tea;
With
sugar refined as
White
as history;
Trying
hard to distance itself
From
the memory
Of genocide
and slavery.
Now
In the beautiful, warm vacation seas.
Shanty
towns and the company store
Create
the stillness of poverty;
The
Eden now cleared of Native Peoples
And
the terrorized Africans
Overworked
and disposed before 30.
All
to create fortunes for entitled families.
Money
from death and misery, bleached
Pure
by virtuous European banks;
In
a society where income is so esteemed
It
became the western hierarchy of ruling currency.
Celebrate
overcoming the past,
Where
all people are valued at last.
Celebrate
the yet to come;
Where
full freedom is finally won.
Dedicated
to the very Reverand William Potter
Truesdale
copyright 2011