Sunday 8 November 2015

BLACK




Black is a concept 


not a fact 

A divide 


A gulf 


A lie 


Black is a whip, 


a chain 


A fallacy 


A theory 


To justify white supremacy 


White privilege 


White hierarchy 


Black is a label 


A title 


An other 


A fence to climb over 


A discarded skin to jump out of 


A burden to be elevated from 


A dirty uncomfortable secret 


A fairy time bed story 


To scare little white children 


Into sleep. 









South Africa has left it's scars, poetry is the only way for me to move forward, it's not pretty but it helps.....

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