Our Own Legacy, a poem
“I’m not in a good place with everything happening in the world,” this poemee said.
We talked right after the Supreme Court announced its decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. “What’s going on in our world impacts our ability to be effective on a daily basis,” they said.
“I’ve been able to see how empathy works in the field of social work, and that has made a heavy impression on me. My social justice pendulum swings wide,” they told me.
“I feel very lucky to work with a good group of people who I can be transparent with about how all of this affects me.”
Our Own Legacy
It’s too much.
Everything we’re sustaining
as human beings
is too much.
Give us the time and space
we need to digest
these massive waves
of social injustice.
Let it saturate, let us
be sensitive, let us vent,
let these feelings
leave our core.
Let’s meet people
in their own environments.
Let’s be present and
in the moment.
Let us rise up
and leave our own legacy
of justice and equity,
compassion and empathy!
