Caverns of Silence
Embracing the silence
I enter
The grotto of my ancestors.
Treading carefully
Mindful of ancient
Baggage.
Familial stalactites
Traps designed to
Poison and pierce.
Bungled aspirations
Petty antagonisms
Nonchalant prejudices.
Skirting
Frozen portals
Of trauma.
Standing before
The speckled mirror
Of my forebears:
White, Anglo-Saxon, male, heterosexual, able-bodied, educated
privileged
ignorant.
Headstrong child
Crawling naked
Through razor-blade ancestral tombs.
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