Status Quo

POETRY FOR INCLUSION

Six faces full of

Light and audacious joy

Exploring the levity of life

And in an instance...

Paleness descends like a predator upon

Their once sunny disposition

Paralyzed

Terrified

Familiar words for a nation

Offering faith without works

While

Incessant bloodath presents

On gurneys transporting the young

And the ol

A solemn sight

For weary eyes

Seekly timely

Reform

Dr Clark is an outpatient psychiatrist at Prisma Health-Upstate and clinical associate professor at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Greenville. He served on the American Psychiatric Association’s Task Force to Address Structural Racism Throughout Psychiatry, and he currently serves as the Diversity and Inclusion section editor and advisory board member for Psychiatric Times^TM.