Defiance

Written by C Hues

March 4, 2025

Interracial integration in the segregated South--
Atrocious actions denied word of mouth.
Just jezebels, jokes, and jinxes at the claws of Jim Crow,
Yet the Eagle never flew, in fact---it's taught to lay low.
And a Founding Father fathered many lost descendants---
While the traces of our roots remain withered remnants.
You see your cousins uncovered with science;
Despite DNA---your whole world is defiance.