PRAYERS, PROMISES, AND PREJUDICE KALEB ATKINSON
I’ll pray for you: a promise often made. I’ll pray for you to be more like me: the unspoken portion of promise. I promise to help you: an assurance of assistance! I promise to help you whenever this starts affecting me: the hidden prejudice unveiled. This prejudice veiled under promises and prayers- I’d be better off without them. Your prayers are against me, your promises empty, and your prejudice disheartening. I pity the one who falls into the perilous pitfalls that your sugared words disguise.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kaleb is entering his sophomore year of college and enjoys reading, writing, and exploring new worlds via poetry or fiction. His favorite authors include Sarah J. Maas, Emily Dickinson, and Taran Matharu. He saw this magazine as an opportunity to finally start speaking out against the things happening in the world. While often writing poems about body image or mental health struggles, Kaleb took a turn towards the political and societal during a Literature and Medicine class where he created works that were submitted to this magazine. 11 SECONDS MAGAZINE |35
