I’m living in a world
Where my skin
Denotes my worth

A danger – I’m perceived
And endangered
Since my birth

Destined to live my days
Feeling like
I can’t be more

Like the heights to my life
Both starts and ends
On the floor.

Being told how I live
Needs to be
Followed by rules

That others with fear skin
Will never hear
So I choose.

To question what is said
What is done
To find a way.

So ‘equal’ truly means
What so many
Wished it say

The shame I feel when I
Choose to look
Out at this race

We all are linked as kin
Despite the shade
Of our face

Instead we fight and kill
Holocaust
And slavery’s chains

Self hate has been the bond
Still flowing deep
In our veins

Will the time ever come
Where we all
Can just enjoy

The beauties of this world
Without the fear
We’ll destroy

Each generation comes
With a hope
To make this true.

Or else the race will end
Humanity
Will be through.