Victims of racism but we both survived!



By Stanley Collymore

Your birth wasn’t planned but all the same your

creation was fashioned through love and most

certainly on your father’s part whose heart

was broken when through bigotry and

racism he was denied access to you

and never fittingly allowed the

opportunity to assume far

less play the role of Dad

that both biologically

and morally was

his right to be.

Fifty years on you’re a parent in your own

right and clearly know what it’s like to

give birth, have a loving family of

your own by someone whom you

love, firmly in the knowledge

that no one could have dared

do to their father, since

you would never have

let them, what your

grandparents so

callously did

in respect

of your

dad.

© Stanley V. Collymore

25 January 2014.

Remarks:

Happy 50^th Birthday Wendy Louise!