Mar 2021
What is black, more than evil in the night?
Souls tainted by darkness, ravens in flight?
The colour of all nothingness,
Yet everything a person is,
I am not black, but inside I'm so empty of bliss.
Black is beauty, black is a tone,
There's nothing quite polar yet similar to white in its own.
With shadows come light,
Hidden from view in society.
Discriminate, incriminate,
Black is more than a variety.
It is a culture,
A life,
An identity,
Someone's strife,
To die at the hands,
Of someone,
Who doesn't understand.
Where there is shadow,
There is also light.
Shadow is darkness,
Much like the night.
Light is the beauty,
The love in our sight.
For every hateful man,
Is a hated woman who fights.
Souls tainted by darkness, ravens in flight?
The colour of all nothingness,
Yet everything a person is,
I am not black, but inside I'm so empty of bliss.
Black is beauty, black is a tone,
There's nothing quite polar yet similar to white in its own.
With shadows come light,
Hidden from view in society.
Discriminate, incriminate,
Black is more than a variety.
It is a culture,
A life,
An identity,
Someone's strife,
To die at the hands,
Of someone,
Who doesn't understand.
Where there is shadow,
There is also light.
Shadow is darkness,
Much like the night.
Light is the beauty,
The love in our sight.
For every hateful man,
Is a hated woman who fights.
I am white. The experiences are not my own. Black people are black, brown people are brown. It's not difficult to write this. Identities are not exotic, so exotic terms are not necessary. Sun-kissed is to describe a Cali guy, not a person ethnic identity.
Anyway please tell me if this is insensitive as I am not a POC and thus don't have these experiences of my own.
Anyway please tell me if this is insensitive as I am not a POC and thus don't have these experiences of my own.
