To My Wife Ni’Teesha – A Raisin in the Sun Creative Response

To my wife Ni’Teesha
By Zachery Sminkey 

We sat and watched A Raisin in the Sun

Ruth announced what they fear is we’ll marry

At first I’m glad that now those times are done

More I think, the more my thoughts get dreary.

I hold my loves black hand in my white palm

I suppose what they had feared has come true

Since those that see us most times are calm

Does this mean that racism is now through?

People do not strike, scream, stare but they glance

Not overt they do it so we can’t see

They’ll be called racist they can’t take that chance

Mom even told Ni’ in secret don’t wed me.

Some may still fight us; this is not their life

Ni’Teesha, you will always be my wife

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