Garden of Meaning

photo courtesy of Ilse Wiechers, MD, MPP, MHS

POETRY FOR INCLUSION

Life and passion

Unite for the steady

Hand that holds

Silver-linings for

A new season

Renewed spirit

Gazes among the

Colorful display

That welcomes

Ingestion of

Spiritual growth

Fig and tomato

Harmony and enlightenment

In a bowl of

Prosperity shining

Amongst the green

Surface

Plentiful diverse

Harvest ripe

With seeds

Of humanity

Whilst

Sweet autumn auguries

Amass in the garden

Of meaning.

Dr Clark is an outpatient psychiatrist at Prisma Health-Upstate and clinical associate professor at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Greenville. He served on the American Psychiatric Association’s Task Force to Address Structural Racism Throughout Psychiatry, and he currently serves as the Diversity and Inclusion section editor and advisory board member for Psychiatric Times^TM.