Affirmationto youth living in prisonafter Assata ShakurSpeak this to yourselfuntil you know it is tr
Affirmationto youth living in prisonafter Assata ShakurSpeak this to yourselfuntil you know it is true.I believe that I woke up todayand my lungs were working,miraculously,my voice can sing and murmur and ask,miraculously.My hands may shake, but they can holdme, or another. My blood still carries the gifts of the airfrom my heart to my brain,miraculously.Put a finger to my wrist or my templeAnd feel it: I am magic. Life and all its good and bad and ugly thingsscary things which I would like to forgetbeautiful things which I would like to remember– the whole messy lovely true story of myselfpulses within me.I believe that the sun shinesif not here, then somewhere.Somewhere it rains,and things will grow green and wonderful.Somewhere inside me, too, it rains,and things will grow green and wonderful.Sometimes my insides rain from the inside out.And then I knowI am aliveI am aliveI am aliveEve L. Ewing (via http://www.liberationlib.com/affirmation-poem.html) -- source link
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