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When the lines are blurred
How can we tell who we are anymore 
How do we know when innocence begins and when it ends
Or if it ever really happened 
At all
This was not everyone's experience 
But it was black children's

For a black boy who had to be  a man 
Before he could be a child 
Before it even began 
He was criminalised 
Before he could even walk
Before he could talk
Before he was even born
Racism a shadow 
Who would forever haunt 
Forever stalk
Forever watched 
A fate he never asked for
A burden he would be forced to carry because of his skin colour
Racism a lifelong trauma
Blurring childhood and adulthood into one word
A word Stripped of innocence 

For a black girl
Everyday for her
Was the burden of being labelled 'the angry black girl'
Her daily routine was trying to be invisible 
Yet still being called ignorant
Constantly Sexualised 
Her big brown eyes
Being seen as a magnet for older guys 
She tries to hide
But they still tried 
Even when she tells then she's a child
They say she may have a face that is innocent 
But her body Is very much different  
She had been called 'easy'
Something she learned before she learned about puberty 
She was Stripped of innocence 
When she learned silence 
Was survival
Even if it meant she had to endure violence
She knew if she spoke 
There was a chance she'd be murdered 
Or Maybe for her what was worse
Was no one believing her
She knew it was because she was a black girl 
She knew this because it happened to her mother
When she was younger
Her perpetrator 
A police officer
Who knew because she was black that meant he had all the power 

Because who would they believe
A black woman
Or a white man
It's obvious 
In a world that is controlled by a system That was built off of oppression 

In a world that favours white over black
A world that if you're white you have innocence as a basic human right 
But when your black it is a privilege we lack
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