Where is Your Righteous Anger?

by Laila Freeman / June 29th, 2025

Woe is me
and woe is my nation
for its government

wishes to ice out
California’s warmth—to
freeze a culture of zeal

that built this altar,
the altar you
sacrifice them on

Woe is this nation of brothers
selling Joseph to Egypt,
their father tears his clothes

in grief and the flock mourns
his absence, I pray
the betrayal exalts him

and when his brothers weep
in shame, I pray he will
save them from famine

Laila Freeman is a writer and journalist from Southern California. Read other articles by Laila.

This article was posted on Sunday, June 29th, 2025 at 8:00am and is filed under Poetry.