How is this for Success:

National Poetry Month 2022

A poem in response to a good but scary read. I read this in 2021…a year later it is still wrecking me. But I am glad I’ve arrived here:

How is this for 

Success:

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I learned that my

Enemy was the

Self-sufficient white man

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I could not beat him so

Instead, I turned toward

Winning myself 

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I looked into my own eyes

And told her she was enough 

Some days she believes

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