Releasing the Pain - "Fix Me"
Sung by Meta Commerse
TITLE: Releasing the Pain – “Fix Me” – sung by Meta Commerse
SOURCE: Wilma Dykeman Legacy event at the Weaverville [NC] Community Center, November 6, 2025
PERMISSION to publish granted by the performer
Meta Commerse grew up in the Chicago Black Arts movement and is currently a resident of Asheville, North Carolina. In 2011, Meta founded Story Medicine Worldwide with a mission to create and support communal experiences of story medicine. Her vision was and is a world where human harmlessness (Ahimsa) is a primary, living value.
Story Medicine Worldwide has grown into an effective modality through which certified leaders and teachers facilitate classes, workshops and programs ranging from writing one’s story to racial repair. Visit their website at https://storymedicineworldwide.com/.
Meta Commerse has published Womaning: A Memoir, a novel titled The Mending Time, and two books of poetry.
On November 6, 2026, the Wilma Dykeman Legacy presented a program at the Weaverville Community Center called “Facing Our History.” The program included Norma Hawes recounting the history of Weaverville’s Black community; Jonathan McCoy discussing Brian Stephenson’s Equal Justice Initiative in Buncombe County, North Carolina; Dr. Kevin Young describing the 1927 lynching of Broadus Miller near Marion, North Carolina; and Jim Stokely describing the 1897 lynching of Bob Brackett along Reems Creek in the Weaverville area.
It was a emotional evening of lamentation and learning, but the most affecting portions of the evening came when Meta Commerse sang three spirituals a capella. It is the Legacy’s honor to share this spiritual with you.