Genre: Society, Life
Living In Color
by Emani Barton
The melanin of your skin
Isn’t what defines you
Though, they’ve already created an image
Of who you’re supposed to be…
Barbaric, so in ways they’ll confine you
And judge you off of the colors that they see
They don’t see beyond your melanin
To understand who you are
They just know that you’re not equal
From picking cotton
To leaking blood from each scar
Mastered by the evil
They’ll paint a picture of you
Using your color as a weapon
Formed against you
Then try to defeat your purpose
Of fighting for your rights to be equal
The pessimistic thought
Of being turned down, is far too familiar
In a society where if your skin is brown
You’re looked at as peculiar
Supposed to be a nation
where we all stand united
But if they really cared for our people
George…
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