For Whom is the Glass Broken?

By Dr. Zain Ali Shamoon Riddle yourself with the following questions: –        Who put the glass ceiling there in the first place? –        And who can afford that? –        And who were the laborers forced to install that? –        And what of the important personal roots that aren’t up there?   But instead down here…

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Your Roar Was, and Will Always Be a Blessing

It’s a weird thing to ask myself to catalyze, again, what I have always been

A storyteller

I’ve learned that the resurgence of a poet’s poetics has more to do with kinetic rhythms put into practice

And looking a little closer in the mirror to see what your wrinkles say about you

And to tell the volumes of your life

In the faces of fear, who ask –

“What ill might befall the speaker if they are too vulnerable?”

“What wrongs could occur if we dare to tell the truth?”

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