Phillis Wheatley’s Response to Biden and Harris’s Victory

Relief has come with Biden’s victory

T’is true indeed for Kamala you see

Methinks there’s hope to cut Gordian’s knot

In which America shrivels and rots 

 

Muses tell me of two worlds we may live

One with work toward peace and informative

One with chaos, divided, filled with hate

God has saved us, I pray, from Satan’s bait

 

Now ye chosen by the people’s penned hand

Live up to your promise made to this land

Acknowledge pain and those bereft of hope

Lead all oppressed up freedom’s troubled slope 

 

Image taken from phillisremastered.com: https://phillisremastered.com/2010/10/14/why-i-love-phillis-wheatleys-word/

Mattie Grace Levy

I'm a black woman, a classically trained oboist, a self-taught composer, and an introspective poet trying to comprehend my thoughts.

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