Obama In Onerous Times Poem by Sylva Portoian

Obama passed through difficult times...
Avoidless to say,
Still facing many
onerousnesses.

Impersonality can't take grace
In his notion;
Every tragedy,
He has to face.

He should face
And face... And face
Never resent
Yet dance with grace.

Accepting raps
Accepting slaps
Accepting the unacceptable
Through artful courageousness.

If he is a Real Black,
The whites will try to push him into the dark,
If he is White,
The blacks will do their ways...
Send him back... singing with Larks.

He is lucky, he is in between.
They say who is in between
Has all the genes that others lack

So he will stay playing
at ‘Political Art'
Neither White nor Black.
"We all wish him the best of luck."


Sylva Portoian, MD

February 28,2009