Black Poets Society: 70x7

Donalda Brantley
By Donalda Brantley The Black Lens

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Forgive and Forget

The hurt the pain the wrongful and the shame but who am I to blame just look at what I overcame-

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My minds on a thought deficit

No closure, no apologies just theologies on your wrongdoings and your actions all for their laughs and satisfactions

But I’m wrong if I say I’m about that action

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Tell me again what was it?

How you “never did that” or how it was “never your intention” but did I fail to mention that the air still holds the tension?

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It replayed in my head.

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You bit the hand that kept you fed

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He told me what was to be said

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Forgive Time and time again

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your worries you’ll forget