AfroPoets Famous Writers

Ageism

I am the world you forget
(Or choose to erase),
The one you fear
In your sleep.

I am the memory
That you don't discuss,
Check my kind
I am your future.

I am your place of birth,
I am your good news,
Whose millennium are you?

I am not a star
Just a universe,
I am not just me
Still I am.

I am a way of life
With countless days,
I bring seasons
As I speak.

I am the I you debated
And I created
The hours before your time.

I am an old scribe,
From the first tribe,
Whose millennium are you?

Written by Benjamin Zephaniah