Still the same
Still evolving
Still walkin on sunshine
Still highly melanated
Django Jane
Still in Wakanda
Still living in that pride
Still considering bridges
Still wondering if fools build barriers or if people who have been burned enough are just being cautious
Women are integral to infrastructure, baby, still
Still givin’ Drake his props
Still ain’t watchin Detroit
Still like, who gone carry a gun to school
Still appalled
Still mourning
Still can’t believe we’re havin that conversation
It’s still propoganda
Still a lost people, but
Steel ain’t stolen, it’s captured
Still honoring my father and my mother
Still winnin
Still ridin down the interstate in a sun shower, listening to Billy Preston and Syreeta
Still a setup for a come back
Still got it goin on
Still ego trippin– nikki giovanni
Still I Rise– Maya Angelou
Stilltryintokillthepoem
Still a moral to the story
Still about the south
Still relevant up there cause there’s
still a need
Still becoming
Still seeing myself through orange clay and metallic bronze
I see the sand is still burnin
Rites of passage
Clinnesha D. Sibley is an award-winning playwright and published poet/essayist. She is the Literary Arts Instructor at Mississippi School of the Arts in Brookhaven, MS. For more information, please visit: http://onepagerapp.com/clinneshadsibley.
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