I mourn you <br />Though, I never knew you <br />I’m part of you but we’ve never met <br />I love you, but <br />You’re merely a distant reverie <br />Black boys and black girls <br />Who, eventually became black men and women <br />They are my family but we’ve never met <br />I won’t say we’re estranged <br />Time just gave them different names <br />The family I’m talking about <br />You might remember <br />Claude and Langston <br />Zora and Jessie Redmon <br />I never knew them but <br />They birthed me <br />A dream deferred <br />That will never be me <br />We are family <br />Zora, Langston, Jessie, Claude and me <br />They gave birth to Harlem <br />Which in turn gave birth to me<br /><br />Candis Johnson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/then-there-was-harlem/
