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White Tears - a poem by Christopher D. Sims

She told me
she did not
trust their
tears

who could
blame her?

'cause for
years

white people
white women
have been crying

are those tears
lying about their
true feelings?

are white people
willing to turn
those tears into
action, into change,
into movements,
into revolutions,
into solutions,
into monetary
distributions,

into conclusions
where we see
real equity?

white tears 
can be appealing,
but what are they
really revealing?

are they tears 
of healing?

are they tears
of real hurt, pain,
concern?

are those tears,
your tears, about
real concern?

because of 
your crying,
what have you
really learned?

should we expect
hope, optimism?

how you have 
been affected by
racism over the
years

when we see
those white 
tears?

Copyright Christopher D. Sims
July 2020