Poem - In Time

 In Time 

in 1000 years

3014

if numbers are still useful then

and used to measure time

America's legacy of slavery

1655 - 1865

210 years in duration

will have been forgotten

and may be only a footnote 

in some old book 

or redundant  digital device

and will no longer reside 

as a boil

ready to erupt 

just beneath our skins 

a factor coloring our encounters 

with each other

and if humans are alive

in 3014

and the world has progressed

and human civil rights

are preserved 

and furthered

and kindness and logic

rule

then we - the whites

will finally be freed

(c) GMK 3/2014