“Separate and unequal”
Has an evil sequel:
The devilish creation
Of racial segregation
Is abject subjugation
And clear discrimination.
So found ‘Brown
Versus Board of Education.’
True reconciliation
And total integration
Are needed in our nation.
Thenceforth may we escape
The fatal final fate
Of God’s annihilation.
Dr. John Telford is a lifelong educator. He is the DPSCD poet-in-residence at Frederick Douglass Academy for Young Men and professor of poetry for the Michigan Chapter of the Di Medici Society. He is also a columnist, who writes ‘The Poet’s Corner’ for The Downtown Detroit Monitor. He was awarded Prize Poet by the Sharon Creative Arts Association in 1966.
