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"This must be what it means to get old. I could hate no one when I was young. Now i can and I do." --Edwidge Danticat

we are a sensitive people
and brave
and the two are inseparable, for
the armor of bravery is necessary
to protect our sensitive skins.

we have many wounds
old wounds that will not heal
we were never given time to heal
to reconcile the past with the present, for
we tread the waters of the past in
living the present. ---me