Rajeeyah Hasan Poems

We crossed seas for promises of lavished lives landing on rocks of strange land, bringing traditions with pieces of heart from home.
We shared dreams of idyllic liberties often not inclusive of us.
From the hulls of ships chained that yanked and raped our innocence, to the mothers and daughters of the resistance breaking free in the nights heading northward.
We gathered among whisper behind shadows of domesticity conforming to roles, most not of our choosing.
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