CK, i love the Colour poem. It almost made me crycry
I did this one just then...
He was there for me
Through hard times and such
Knowing everything about me
And that I loved him so much
He was a friend
A dear one at that
But we weren’t allowed talk
Because his skin was black
He understood how I felt
With the prejudice in the world
He looked at me and smiled
“People are absurd…
They don’t want us to be happy
They want us to be upset
But never fear
I’ll be here, you bet”
I learnt a lot from him
How to deal and stuff
Knowing how to disregard
People who are tough
But what I didn’t know
Lied in his neighborhood
He tried to hide the bruises
He did what he could
I found out one night
People had been hurting him
Saying “Never to see her again…
Or we’ll hurt Kim.”
He didn’t want this to happen
And he moved away
He had no choice
And didn’t want it to happen this way
A year later,
I received a letter
Regarding he had passed
For me, heleft a letter
I read it
And burst into tears
For I had found out
He was killed by his fears
“Guys came up to me,
Hustling and punching
Left me in the gutter
Blood out of my nose pumping.
They said they’ll come back later
Threatening even worse.
Now I know,
Black skin is a curse.
But I want u to know this;
All the hatred, all the fights
All the times,
We’ve sneaked through nights.
All the times we’ve had to lie
All the times we’ve had to cry
All the times they’ve threatened
That we would die
I wanted you to know
That I’m sorry for what I’ve done to you
What I put u through
But remember, I still love you…”