Every day someone is forgotten.
Blown away by the wind,
Squished like a bug,
Silenced by the dead of night.
All men aren’t created equal,
All people are created equal.
All creatures are created equal.
Eliza and Alexander Hamilton,
Hercules,
John Laurens,
Sally Hemings,
Katherine Johnson,
Dorothy Vaughan,
Mary Jackson,
Red Cloud,
Crazy Horse,
Black Elk,
Sojourner Truth,
Martin Luther King Jr.
Just a few examples of people,
And so many more,
Whose true stories have been either erased,
Or distorted cruelly,
Currently, or previously for a long time,
Either because of race, gender, ethnicity, or birthplace.
We may not have control over
Who lives, who dies, who tells our story,
But we do have control over
Who tells their story, the forgotten stories,
And how we tell their story, truthfully.
No one deserves to be forgotten.
No one deserves to disappear.
No one deserves to fade away.
Inspiration: Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda & Dear Evan Hansen