Tenderized Fear

TENDERIZED FEAR…

It’s not that I am not afraid,

It’s just that I am not scared

We shall not overcome…

For the liberated sufferer

Knows that God defeats all evil:

Consummating victory…

And the only thing to be

Afraid of is that it may not be

Realized that there is no victory

Independent of faithful battle…

I’m not afraid, just scared

That some may forget that we are

Children of the Exodus…

Surviving heirs of those Ancestors

Who were welled acquainted

With suffering pandemonium

And that this present pandemic scare

Will be overcome…

And we can get back to the struggle

Against injustice promoting distancing

Social and economic inequalities

Spanning our ethnic and gender categories...