Strange Fruit

Lady Holiday- one of my digital prints
Embedded in the roots
These trees bare strange fruit
Flowing through generational veins
The poison of the past still remains
Stretching through each limb
Passing through the leaves
And floating in the breeze
Carrying along with it toxic ways
Spreading a curse that’s survives off the fear of many
Creating enemies out of loved ones
Condemning us all to a lifetime of hateful holidays and loving funerals
Until we look in the mirror and see that
Only the truth remains
Leading to a startling revelation and steps to reconciliation
Oh what a feeling it is to submerge yourself in waters of forgiveness and understanding
A necessary purge that gives birth to new leaves no longer stained
Breaking a cycle and bringing forth what was needed in the very beginning,
Change.