WILL WE FINALLY KNOW?

By Farah Lawal Harris, 2024

Is righteousness the new wave?

Will BBLs be replaced with Bibles?

Will we end generational cycles?

Will all the certified pedophiles pay for the children they defiled?

Will Diddy “take that” karma for running wild?

Will women finally be believed?

Will little Black girls choose books over bussdown weaves?

Will we exchange all the world’s plastic for trees?

And please, will there be more bees

pollinating flowers planted by seed

In urban gardens where rose bushes

do grow from cracks in concrete.

Thorns scratch the arms of gentrifiers who treat

any Black child, woman, or man as “less than.”

Will abundance abound?

Will bombs cease to sound in Gaza?

Will we stop caring about celebrity drama?

Will we finally know what it is to be free?