Role Models

Vain to the point of ugliness
Son of a black pimp
A gentle white whore
.

She despised him as a child
And felt the guilt of it
Her constant reminder
Of life and body sacrificed
.

Pimped full of neglect and pride
One more testimony to pimped manhood
One more gentle whore lamed
.

Seed scattered upon the wind
Of indifference
.

She tried to hide from him
Months in prison
Abandoned by her own father
Who would not accept a black child
.

Finally saved by her own mother
After ten years of it
A tired body
And a man who could find
Forgiveness
And love
.

New women and innocence follow
And from the lives of hurt mothers and elder brothers
No grace can flow
Since they deny themselves forgiveness
And find the physical handicap of anger and guilt
Burnt into flesh and bones
.

Circumstance
You wicked slayer of souls
And the examples now set by those hurt
Loom over the lives of these new women
.