Has my history gotten lighter
Has history gotten lighter?
Is that the sun shining brighter
Turning dark pigment into white washed figment
Has history gotten lighter?
Is the weight of their chains
Being braced with their freedom?
Has history gotten lighter?
Why has fighter been exchanged for
Ghost writer
Has history gotten lighter?
Being diminished
Never finished
Has MY history gotten lighter
Has the weight been removed
Is my color no longer a tool
Is freedom given not bought
Has my history gotten lighter?
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Abstract philosophical inquiry about history, race, freedom mixed with personal reflection
Multiple dense ideas: whitewashing, chains, freedom, erasure, identity compressed throughout
Questioning tone tinged with frustration, doubt, and critical examination of injustice
Insistent repetition and rhetorical questions create urgent, probing intensity
Approximately 24 lines; falls in 16-30 line range
Rich metaphors: chains, whitewashing, pigment, weight; personification of history
Primarily lyric internal voice with shift to personal 'MY history' near end
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