-what Colour Is Right-
Why does colour have to take the blame
for man's atrocities shame,
What colour is then right
Is it written so in black and white.
What shade is inhumanities blight
What hue causes immense plight
What colour is poverty's lack?
Is that now also in white and black
What colour is riot causing havoc
What colour is the murderer's right
What colour is fraud and greed's stock
Can it be etched in black and white?
What colour is barbarous insanity
What pigment is idle inane vanity
What colour has a brain to rack?
Is that too now so white and black?
What stain is hideous terrifying death
What dye is used to measure womens worth
What colour is senseless wars to prove might
Is that too now depicted in black and white?
Why is man always on about what colour
Then racist rant for their idiotic ways to smother
And purposely use colour to throw facts off the track
So creativity now too, is painted in white and black?
Why is it always about people's colour
Where is the love prescribed for one another
Why is colour always used as spite
Why is love too now blurred with black and white?
Can it not be just about people and not colours
Can not all the colours be blended to manhood of brothers
Peoples all bleed red, so why one another attack
Or has now peoples blood turned white and black?
BY: CHRIS STOPFORD
Copyright © Christopher Stopford | Year Posted 2012
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