Gwendolyn Brooks - Annie Allen (1949)

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What shall I give my children? who are poor,
Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land.

Gwendolyn Brooks

And if sun comes
How shall we greet him?
Shall we not dread him,
Shall we not fear him
After so lengthy a
Session with shade?

Gwendolyn Brooks

We do not want them to have less.
But it is only natural that we should think we have not enough.
We drive on, we drive on.

Gwendolyn Brooks

People like definite decisions,
Tidy answers, all the little ravelings
Snipped off, the lint removed, they
Hop happily among their roughs
Calling what they can't clutch insanity
Or saintliness.

Gwendolyn Brooks

There are no magics or elves
Or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must
Wizard a track through our own screaming weed.

Gwendolyn Brooks

It is brave to be involved
To be not fearful to be unresolved.

Gwendolyn Brooks