Black On White

Seems black on white is not absurd Unless to reading you’re inured. Black softens white in photograph Can give it depth that makes you laugh. And Black’s shade for reflective core, (1) When temperatures begin to soar Black yin, white yang, design you see And God’s plan for eternity. While white on black is racist’s art Inversion that can’t live in heart. Yes, light seems death to black outlook, Until you read God’s storybook, What we call light (this seems absurd) Reduced to heat, God’s final Word, This heat the last trace of a race To spread God’s Word through all of space. Brian Johnston January 25, 2015 Poet’s Notes: (1) A ‘white’ skin is reflective of all light, a ‘black’ skin much less so, a ‘red’ skin reflects mostly red light and so on. One of the funniest Oxymoron’s in the English language is surely the calling of people whose skin color is not white ‘Colored People.’ It is Caucasians in fact who should be called ‘Colored’ if anyone should. A black skin really is like shade itself the absence of light, the absence of color. Caucasians might most properly be called colored because white light contains all colors, not just red, orange, yellow, green, or blue.