Recently, I wrote and performed the poem below “Slam Poetry Style” for friends and Acumen investors. My sister and bro supported me in the creation of this. I hope you like it.

An Invitation
By Keely Stevenson

I am the dying hospice patient teaching others to honor life

I am a giggle

and the love all things chocolate

I am the heart that says "Let's March on DC"

I am the Palestinian who hates the US but loves MTV

I am the citizen against terror that thinks Iraq is the key

I am the book that must be burned

the echo of Jim's crow

the ape who prays to the flying spaghetti monster

and the twelve year old forced to kill, for diamonds?

I am the unskilled farmer that got his land back from the white man

the profit of risk and the punishment of failure

I am the discrimination that you pretend no longer exists

I am the choice between HIV treatment for myself or food for my kids

I am the ceiling that women keep hitting their heads upon while trading derivatives

I am the dignity in poverty and the courage in chemotherapy

I am the believer that is jailed for prayer

And the fear of disease born of one bite

I AM THE CHALLENGE

I am the challenge to make a difference in this world

and I am lost

but I am rolling up my sleeves to go to work

I am hope, I am proud

I AM NECESSARY