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Generational trauma

I've inherited my mother's fear And my father's bitterness And he inherited his father's recklessness And his mother's pain And she inherited And he inherited And we've inherited hatred of our own kind Passed down from the terrorists who have colonized the lands and minds and bodies of my ancestors And I can feel the anguish & the effects of this hereditary agony from here; I am ready to heal.

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Published: Dec 4, 2018
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Notes: Thoughts from the diaspora.
Tags: #mental #health #immigration #healing #homeland #trauma #diaspora

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