Shared Like Gifts Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

It is still a Dutch colony.
With those who control it...
Coming to go,
To inflict their racial acrobatics.

It is divided by invisible fences.
With those of ethnic faces
Displaying their daily infighting defenses.
And there is funding for everything done.
To ensure comprehension...
Is something never to be understood,
With understanding that comes.

They want them at their dumbest.
And that is preferred and accepted.

And those of color who have ever contributed?
The great deeds they have done...
Have been from this place 'booted'.
As if they had made none!
And ignorance is shared like gifts received.
Along with the apartheid obviously applied...
By those who are equally mentally limited.