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sophie chiang

in the darkness of after / life, / no one can whisper echoes in my ear, forcing me to change. / this is the difference between / black and white, in and out. no one can tell us / how to speak, how’s it going. / and how our life becomes weightless. / when our very existence is examined, We are family. / We are a great city. / We are a house. / We are the birds. / We are found. / We are history. / We are future. / We are not different. / not black stains on the white picket fences, nor / yellow splotches on the marble floor, nor brown / specks in your blue eyes. / our children will walk past our graves. / they will sit beside each other at the church, holding hands. / all they want for Christmas is more salt and pepper: a crude reminder / of our division, of our blackness and whiteness. why did they do that? to a lot of people. I never understood why. floored, / in their reimagined world of / love and light and 

history. 

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Sophie Chiang is a high school poet and an advocate for environmental awareness and social justice. She uses her power of words to address these issues through surrealist poetry and loves playing with imagery. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Aurora Journal (theaurorajournal.org), and you can find her at sophiechiang.com.

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