Colors Of Dark Poem by Kim Schilling

Eyeliner thickly paved
round’ her dark sullen eyes,
jet hair framed pale face;
must be goin’ nowhere,
so they believe not in her,
but in her sinister colors.

Yet she flourishes in school
beside the “colored” boy;
an implant from the ghetto,
destined to fail, or so they believe,
the American Dream gone bad
in all their pompous prejudice.

Together they hold hands and unite,
to promote “Stop the Killing”,
while crowds of all colors gather;
a black balloon floats for every child lost,
black guns of every kind surrendered
to awaiting police.

These two know bigotry and hate.
Beatings and deaths over black;
from those blind to the sub-surface
or too afraid to admit connections.
Perhaps our two embrace their diversities,
knowing color is only color wherever it be.


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