Day by day we lose our light
Asking ourselves if there is a day where we must not fight
Uncertainly moving in a cloak of fear
No one stopping to truly hear
Today is another day, a Black man is gone
Every day is another day, a Black woman is gone
Why can they not see our humanity
Righteously applauding small moments of justice after intense brutality
I can no longer stand to watch us suffer in vain
Grappling with the communal fall out of our pain
Holding out for a sign of lasting change
Tentatively waiting for another day.
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Tofunmi Odugbemi is a challenger and disrupter of spaces. She applies her developed sense of justice, ingenuity, and leadership in areas where academia intersects with the legal world. Womanism, Black feminism, anti-ableist, anti-racist, anti-establishment, abolitionist, anti-capitalist, and queer movements inform her work.