Clarity: A Poetic Process

Poetry to process. In this poetic process, folks are encouraged to engage with the words. Feel what is resonant with you. Feel what is discordant with you. With this engagement approach, others with curiosity about their experience with the words, with the concepts, with life.

Transcript

Thank you for being here.

Thank you for taking this time to be present with these words.

Using the words that you hear as a prompt for what is going on within you.

Challenge your thought or how they are accepted in your being.

Once again,

Thank you for being here.

Clarity.

Inhale.

Exhale.

Longing to become the air I breathe.

Wash away the color that divides me from others who are not the same color.

Clear my thought of fear.

Breathe in the air that changes me from all I am to clear.

My hands are wet from washing away the scars that chains have left.

From generations held enslaved,

The air dries the wet from my hands.

From the pain of my ancestors,

I am saved.

Inhale.

Exhale.

The air washes clear my mind.

To sleep,

I must go.

To sleep,

I must go.

When I wake,

I will have left this all behind.