Poem 1.20.2025

 We are not the children of Atlas

We will not carry

Your weight

Your world

On our shoulders.


We are not the children of Atlas

We will not feel shame

When we cannot bear

Your weight

Your world

On our shoulders 


We are not the children of Atlas 

We will not stay silent 

When you try to put

Your weight

Your world

On our shoulders


We are not the children of Atlas

We refuse to listen 

When you point fingers

To blame anyone

Other than you

And say

‘Fear each other

For it is them

And not us who put

Their weight

Their world

On your shoulders’


You are not the children of Atlas

But you told us

You would put 

Our weight

Our world

On your shoulders.


We are not the children of Atlas 

But we believed in you

Until that belief 

Broke the bones

Of our shoulders


We looked up at your shoulders

Unbroken

And that’s when

We knew

We are not the children of Atlas.

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