By Rady Taing
The hurt that color causes is
beginning to wear us all out.
The colors of the rainbow?
No, that’s not what it’s about
The tears it brings betrays
our masked feelings that we present.
Red, yellow, black, white, brown…
the colors we all resent
What is this that I speak about?
Why don’t you try and guess.
You see, it’s all around us.
The matters we all should press.
No one does anything to stop it
this war we’re all denying
Everyone’s been a victim to it
In our hearts we are crying.
Do I still need to spell it out?
Look closely and it appears.
I have faced it ands it is
difficult to ignore the sneers.
The elaborate power of excessive
destruction it can bring.
Loud like the church bells
hateful words, it can ring.
Call it discrimination, prejudice,
Injustice, one-sidedness
Dogmatism, fanaticism…
In the end, it all means one thing
No matter how you say it,
and that’s RACISM.