The Sun Will Still Rise // Ava Watters ‘22

The sun will still rise no matter what happens The world stops for no one. A baby opens its eyes for the first time and smiles With no idea of the discrimination and trials For he does not know the struggles he will face All because he is a different race.

He enters preschool at the age of four Facing discrimination at the door His hair is too long and poses distraction Of all the boys he gets an infraction. At age eleven he walks onto the bus But the color of his skin is what the other boys discuss “It’s just a word” is what he is told Then why did it stick with him until he was old?

Starting high school at the age of fourteen As it turns out the kids and teachers are still mean

The Sun Will Still Rise

Ava Watters ‘22

A classmate accused him of stealing her phone Looks like the kid is on his own.

Age sixteen he begins to drive Even that becomes hard to survive A cop pulls him over and asks for his registration Next thing you know he’s at the police station.

At age eighteen he graduates high school Despite his hopes the world is just as cruel He begins his adulthood and looks for a job Of his future he will be robbed.

He meets the love of his life at the age of twenty-four The racial difference is hard for most to ignore At a restaurant he is first accused That the love of his life is being abused. He is now twenty-five and has his first child But the issues with race have still not

been reconciled He worries for the safety of his beautiful little girl That she will still face the struggles of his world.

At the age of thirty he enters a store A cop grabs his arm and pushes him to the floor The man stays there begging for his wife But the cop hears nothing and takes the man’s life.

But the world stops for no one The sun will still rise no matter what happens.