The sad tale of colour

Adookorn Auaduma
@auadumaadookorn150359
15 days ago

you bully me for my colour, label
me with the #hashtag of contempt
for a colour i did make -

something you can not change

you despise me for my colour, pass
judgement before i say a word
for a colour i did not bargain -

something you can not classicise

you scold me for my colour, cage
me in entangled web of cold feet
for a colour i did not conjure -

something i can not abjure

yet; you dote the sky dressed
in motley, birds arrayed
in etch smorgasbord plumage

and, floral groomed in variety of colours

you adore blacks coz
you are black

cherish whites
coz you are white

and cold-shoulder the oneness of nature

how much will
you have adore birds
of same
colour of black or white soar
in a sky of same
hue of black or white

if not for their varieties of colour

swerve underneath my skin
and uncover the psyche lay
silent in fabrics of gold

it's not black or white
cocooned in grey-dark
embroidery of guess work;

it's a psyche lay
in contrast to colour
as the narrow-minded predicates!

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