Ph.D., Face-toFace, Innate!
Woke up fixated on what I experienced AND learned yesterday.
Dr. Willa Ellis had just one LAST message to teach me.
Even if I am FACE-TO-FACE with Poverty
Even if I am FACE-TO-FACE with hardships
Even if I am FACE-TO-FACE with obstacles
Even if I am FACE-TO-FACE with barriers
Even if I am FACE-TO-FACE with detours
Even if I am FACE-TO FACE with injustice
Even if I am FACE-TO-FACE with intergeneration and generational responsibilities
Even if I am FACE-TO-FACE with being a caregiver
Even if I am FACE-TO-FACE with family and life’s let downs
Even if I am FACE-TO-FACE with discombobulation
Even if I am FACE-TO-FACE with discomfort
Even if I am FACE-TO-FACE with obstructionists
Even if I am FACE-TO-FACE with my wrong, bad, and irreversible decisions
I AM TO LOOK AT THOSE THINGS AS NECESSARY TOOLS TO OBTAIN A Ph.D.
I or you may NOT be heading back to higher learning to be conferred a degree but LOOKING BACK OVER OUR LIVES and the mere fact that WE ALL HAVE FACED things to get us to our RIGHT NOW that speak to the FACT that we have Ph.D.’s within us!
Just as this vicious RACISM, and RELIGION we WOMEN AND POC heard things and began to believe them and then the result are our actions convey WE KNEW AND KNOW NOT WHAT WAS WITHIN, BY DESIGN.
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