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Stand Up
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Purple Sky Juliet PM
Are you going to move?" "No." Sitting down will make us all stand up. Poem dedicated to Rosa Parks, about the Civil Rights Era.
Rated: Fiction K+ - English - Hurt/Comfort/Poetry - Words: 168 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: 01-12-10 - Status: Complete - id: 2763229
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Moving isn't gonna do anything,

Stay still...

Black and White,

All the same.

Just a different shade.

Sitting down makes us all

Stand up.

"Are you going to move?"

"No."

I will not move from my place.

I will stand,

Hard as a stone.

The world can beat at me,

It'll make no difference.

Hammering me down,

Only brings us up.

"Why do you push us all around?"

"I don't know."

Push and Pull,

Swear and Curse,

Beat and kill,

Order and Yell.

Innocent people come down,

Fallen into the mob of anger,

83 women lynched.

What if it was us lynching you?

What if we took down your mother,

Daughter,

Sister,

Brother,

Wife,

Grandmother,

Husband,

Father.

What if it was us that beat you down?

When she sat down,

She made us all stand up,

Started a movement,

Just by staying still.

She was there when he had his dream,

She marched with them against discrimination,

She will be there anytime someone,

Stands up.

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