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Zywa
Poems
Aug 2020
The Promised Land
It is a fact, not a favour, to be born
outside a ghetto, wasteland or slum town:
no one should reprove me
for not having cultivated the field myself
not having paved the roads and eating fruit
from trees that I have not planted
It is a fact, no a fault, to be born
inside a ghetto, wasteland or slum town:
no one should reprove me
for having come here
on roads that I haven't paved
to work in other people's fields
and to eat the fruit
of trees that I have not planted
Joshua 24:13
Collection "From Sacred Scripturesβ
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