Mama’s Prayers
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She said, “you know how long they’ve been trying to get you.”
I responded, “I’m watching them — if they play, they will get booed.”
She gasped, “How do you think you will get through?”
“You know me, I’m gonna boldly speak the truth.”
She’s worried, “You know you can’t trust the system.”
I shrugged, “I don’t plan to be a victim of the system —
Like how the system made it for them —
It’s the same system that will break it for them.”
Her worried brows said more than words
Because she was worried about the poisonous swords
Meant for me — invisible and designed like I can’t see.
“They’re acting like I can’t see; like I can’t be free,
Mama, don’t worry about me. I don’t pick trouble.
I’m just being the person that you prayed for me to be.
Mama, your prayers will cover me —
Even on days when I can’t see
When I don’t know where, when, why or who I want to be.”
She just smiled and I knew her heart wept
And not for any secrets she kept
Or for the days the world made her upset
But she knew my talent and abstract concepts
And my love for my people that I hold in the depths
Of my heart.
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Linette Rabsatt
Linette Rabsatt is a Virgin Islands poet with roots in the BVI and USVI who began writing in 1996. You can find her work in her 2023 Kindle book, "Be Inspired: Poems by Linette Rabsatt," on her blog, "Words of Ribbon," in "Virgin Islands Callaloo: Poems from the Caribbean," and on the Visual Verse website. She performs at local events, and online poetry readings and was recently nominated for a National Spoken Words Award for Best International Artist.
Find more from Linette on her blog.
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