This series is inspired and inspired. Thankyou. "and as i watched my white classmate pop and lock and break \ as the DJ folded my rhythm and blues into the pale blue of his tender eyes \ an ocean of sorrow surfaced between us \ a tide too deep to name \ \ and I wondered \ maybe what i thought was appropriation \ what i thought was toxic flattery \ what i thought was imitation stripped of soul \ maybe it was not what it seemed \ not this time \ not this place \ maybe it was simply us \ boys stumbling and breaking into a dark and lonely world \ bound by a music we could not escape \ haunted by memories we would never forget \ and for a moment i felt it \ not certainty but possibility \ not freedom itself but hope reimagined in the breaking \ trembling like light at the edge of shadow".
There is so much in this Etienne. These lines particularly go deep "memories slipping through the teeth of sharks \ ghosts of the waters our ancestors did not choose". So much in this. Thankyou for sharing and also for the encouragement to write.
This was like a short story and had me hooked. Iām a cadence person so really rocked with that too
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This series is inspired and inspired. Thankyou. "and as i watched my white classmate pop and lock and break \ as the DJ folded my rhythm and blues into the pale blue of his tender eyes \ an ocean of sorrow surfaced between us \ a tide too deep to name \ \ and I wondered \ maybe what i thought was appropriation \ what i thought was toxic flattery \ what i thought was imitation stripped of soul \ maybe it was not what it seemed \ not this time \ not this place \ maybe it was simply us \ boys stumbling and breaking into a dark and lonely world \ bound by a music we could not escape \ haunted by memories we would never forget \ and for a moment i felt it \ not certainty but possibility \ not freedom itself but hope reimagined in the breaking \ trembling like light at the edge of shadow".
There is so much in this Etienne. These lines particularly go deep "memories slipping through the teeth of sharks \ ghosts of the waters our ancestors did not choose". So much in this. Thankyou for sharing and also for the encouragement to write.
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