Roses
They tell us that we are free, but are we really 'free'?
Bounded and affected by the oppression against me
"Slavery didn't happen to you, so why should you be affected?"
Its the root of all African American's problems today, but would you even have guessed it?
We really are concrete roses
All of us are in some way
We rose up from beauty, in a cold dark place
Society puts its stamp on us and I have to admit it works
They tell us what beauty is and how we can benefit from the perks
Its all just systematic if you can really understand it
System of color, system of race, system of survival of the fittest
We should never conform to society's expectations
Sometimes being a wild rose is so much better than being maintained
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t-kaur84@hotmail.com
How can we be the same
When one is a brother and another is a sister?
When one is tall and another is lame
When one is pale and another a different shade
Into one category can we all be made?
Living and beings
But then we are like animals
To pee sleep and eat
Animals must eat one another To live
But we have the ability of kindness and to give
Compassion is the idea that separates us from animals
And brings us togethers as human beings.
Really good. The first four stanzas encapsulates what I wanted to say. Thank you.
GGDIYs
i am white and you know what i would of been the first white person back in the days to vote for ENDING SEGREGATION i support everything your saying i understand that you would right this and i beleive and have hope for the world to chang...
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