Black and White

The black I bear,
The burden black, 
Betrothed bestowed,
Bewildered Brain,
Brown Disdain,
But White I Bear,
The Withered Fear,
The willful woes of domination,
Wake up World,
To wider waves, 
Of hatred in the waning.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2007

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January 24, 2018 at 1:09 PM
Powerful poem, Lucas. Unacceptable that a poem like this still needs to be written nowadays. Truth be told everyone feels a certain degree of injustice in the world... that is except those with friends in high places. There are a lot of us that fall in the gray zone, pardon my pun.
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