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by: Casey McLerran
Weekends
Exist
For Lovers
For Novices
For Escapist
For the escapism
That has been
Hardwired
Into our
Social machinery.
Weekends exist
To make us feel better
About working
so hard.
To make us forget
That we must
Work
Everyday.
To prop up the
Illusion
That there is
Somehow
Less value
In just getting by.
Weekends exist
To remind us
Weekly
That we are
Weak
In our convictions.
That our morality
Which sounds
High
Is lacking logic.
Disconnected
From reality.
Weekends exist
Because we are
At our
Weakest
After five days
Of pretending
To be enough.
Smart enough
Strong enough
Moral enough
Pretending that
Our moments
Of weakness
Are not as valuable
As our moments
Of strength.
Weekends exist
For lovers.
Love does not
Rest.
Casey McLerran is the Literary Editor at the Black Wall Street Times. She is a Sooner State transplant from Forest Hills, NY. McLerran arrived in Oklahoma at the age of three shortly after gentrification displaced her and her family out of their home in New York. At first glance, many think they have McLerran figured out. To be frank, she’s a biracial American young woman that unapologetically embraces her half-African identity — a feminist-womanist she is. Her pen operates as her voice as well as her sword. Her accolades include the 2018 Rural Oklahoma Poetry Museum’s Oklahoma Poem Award, a business management degree, and her three beautiful children. Her objective with the Black Wall Street Times is to elevate and amplify the literary art of modern black American culture, pay tribute to African-American literary trailblazers, all while simultaneously linking and introducing children to the world of colorful American writers.