I DON'T HATE YOU!
By: Taylor Donnelly
There is this... anger
What is this anger
Sadness wrapped in ANGER
I am angry
Why am i angry? !
You, you think i don't love you
You think I'm angry with you,
That i hate you because maybe my ancestors too far back, Ive never meet them disillusioned by the time and the nurtured scared by Society, bigotry suckling ancestors
I don't understand
I don't hate you i don't know you well enough to hate you
But you think you know me because old white bigots in caskets did bad thing to your ancestors
I don't aline my self with them, so why do you
I never raised a hand to you
I never laughed in your face and called you words I'm not aloud and don't want to say now because...
I don't hate you but you hate me
We have never meet... but you hate me
Because the color of my skin
The very thing you blame me for doing
Though i have never seen you as a color
I don't want to own you
I want to stand be side you and make it better for our kids that will one day blame us too
I don't hate you
But You there with the head scarf!
You i don't hate you because you didn't get in those planes
You didn't put on that bomb praying to a god I don't see
But don't be angry because i don't see Allah
I don't see any god... or goddess, no path, or way of life
So yes your bomb strapping country men that think this maybe it to be a truth
I am a godless pig a white skinned devil with none to pray to
Not having a god to tell me though corrupted lips of men who think they read a book differently than I
Or can read it to me because words are lines
I'm illiterate to the prophets and the profits
I see no god in the actions of children who think they are men who think they are grow women
I don't hate you!
Or your people
I was young and didn't understand why my teachers cried begging the sky
I didn't know why the world felt colder and with war not too distant I FELT COLDER without knowing why
I didn't get why flags hung heavy made my Chinese children in doors of future bigots whp think they know you
I never hated you
I most likely never will
And for this i ask you don't hate me either for my people, your people, our people
We are not the people that we have never meet
Bigotry is not a genetic trait
We are not the skin and flesh on our bones
I'm not my religion and religious people...
Or lack of
I AM MY BELIEFS
I AM MY LOVE
I AM MY LIFE, ACTIONS AND WORDS
i. don't. hate. you!
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem