Another Brother Poem by MAXINE P. SOSO

Traumatized, by life's indiscretions
Submerged in stereotypical
contradictions
caught up in the mix

Can you fix, what's not broke?
The token mentality of the man
disparity is his plan

A thousand faces and, no place
to call your own
You're trapped in a world
taught to hide and divide
victimized by a crime
you didn't commit
you ask the question

Will I ever be free
to just be me
And...
walk the streets
though unknown, be left alone?

Can i drive my car
no matter how far
And...
not get stopped
because, my skin color

Is not like the other?
Will they discover
the other side of prejudice
or just, continue to suffer
the consequences of circumstance?

Is there a chance to enhance
the mind of the man
And...
make him understand
that, not all brothers

are the same?
The game remains
But...
the players
do change