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Projection – Alice Walker
Projection a poem by Alice Walker
amazing, inspiring, the great Alice Walkers poem about our prejudices and more…click ‘read more’ to read the poem
—UnderThisSeparatorIsLatterHalf—
Projection
To start
You must divulge
Not a secret
But a thing
Not commonly
Known.
That at the back
Of each humanís eyeballs
Resides the image
Of a small child.
It is the world
Child
& It sits
There
Gravely, looking
Out
Of
Our
Eyes
Waiting
For us
To
Understand.
So tell him this
First of all.
Then
When he says
Those Indians
Are remote
Savages, who do not deserve
Their own forest
Tell him: All the children of the earth
Are perfect.
When he says: Those Germans
& Their ovens
Tell him: Like clouds, or grains of sand, all the children of the earth
Are perfect.
When he says: Those Israelies
& their concentration
camps
Tell him: All the children of the earth
Are perfect.
When he says
Those rotten Arabs
& Their women in
Bed sheets
You tell him: All the children of the earth
Are perfect.
When he says
Those Tibetans
& Their feudalism
You tell him: All the children of the earth
Are perfect.
When he says
Those Chinese
& Their
Femicide
You say: Like the feet of Jesus, the eyelashes of the Buddha, All the children of the earth
Are perfect.
It is our Life Work
To liberate across the planet
The world child
Who always
Lives
Behind
Our eyeballs
Imprisoned
In the only
Image (our own)
We can
(Sometimes)
See.
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