I Just Haven't Left Yet Poem by Julia Luber

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I Just Haven't Left Yet



I don't hate them because they are white,
which would be some people's proclivity.
I don't hate them because they are black,
which would be another peoples' penchance.
I hate them because they are bad unloyal terrible
unforgivable people. I hate them because they
never asked me the questions that seemed so simple
that could have so easily prevented me from hating them.
I HATE THEM WITH MY BLOOD because they have protected
a murderer, with accommodation and friendship, and social
élan while humiliating and blatantly torturing me -with lies
with corner age into something they knew might kill me.
And they did not care an iota. I hate them because I know
that it is not that they care and do not know how to do
anything about it. I hate them because they do not care and
would have the option of doing EVERYTHING about it - easily,
even as their professions. As if they have done nothing that
needed to be done. But everything to stay in power with what
they have done. Which would impress many-many, many- a lot.
A lot. A lot. A lot! And I hate them most for not letting them
impress me at all and actually filling me only with a hate
that could kill me. Frankly, they have driven me out of town;
I just haven't left yet to catch up with my spirit which precedes me.

Thursday, August 8, 2019
Topic(s) of this poem: spirit
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
How the reasons to leave a place foment long before any actions are taken, sometimes.
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Jane Campion 08 August 2019

To hate is to debate whether to leave or stay. The day will come when a decision must be made.

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Julia Luber 08 August 2019

Hopefully, the means will come when a decision must be made. It's boiling down to an economic reason I stay. My emotions feel they need to leave.

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Hebert Logerie Sr. 08 August 2019

Very relevant poem! I don't hate them but I despise because they lie like an overfed donkey.

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Julia Luber 08 August 2019

That's another way of explaining the gist of the point. Thank you.

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