Racism leaves its trace —
measured in rising tides of stress,
in the quiet theft of presence,
pulling us away from the lives we mean to live.

What, then, can heal?
Where does art step in,
not as an answer but as a door left open?

The artist turns inward,
searching the SELF within the collective WE.
She asks:
Where in the body do silent blockages rest,
where does the mind bend beneath invisible weight,
what illness blooms from unspoken wounds?