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.

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