Black and White

Theme: Colorism

Even though we are more than

fifty shades of colors.

My community is too, black and white.

I am neither European nor American.

I am the less civilized, no black man in my uncivilized world

would be choked under the knee of a white cop.

Yet no black man marries a white woman without

whispers in the wedding hall.

No black boy grows without questioning

his skin as if it was a mistake. 

In my community, God is for all but still,

Whiter is the prettiest.