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The Once Bitter River
The once bitter river
Is not so bitter anymore
The blood and gall and bile
No longer coats the shore
It filtered through our fingers
Many hands clasped as one
As we try to change these waters
From the bitter river it has become
And many of these fingers
Combing through the stones
Trace across the remnants
Of blood and of bones
These hands that hold each other
Can clean these waters once again
And we'll build a new bridge across it
With allies and with friends
And though in remote eddies
Resentment may still swirl
Along the banks of this changed river
New blossoms will unfurls
But how many bitter rivers
Will we have to cross
To repent for all those who have drowned
And for the ones we have loved and lost
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This was written as a response to Langston Hughes's poem Bitter River about racism and the lynching of a boy.