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In my months of speaking English
while still thinking, still dreaming, in Arabic,
She is drawing a line between us that does not need to be drawn.
the desire to be seen, to be noticed, to be heard.
I get it, I say, practicing an American phrase I have recently learned.
But I also remember how Mama says that the fact I can control my anger doesn’t make me weak, that sometimes it even makes me strong.
we go back to practicing the past tense.
He is using an international aid worker’s computer to call us.
Roles where we feel seen as we truly are.
America’s often cool indifference to the suffering of brown people.
We’re in a period of human history where empathy is needed more than ever.
