The survival and demonisation being black

Acceptance equals survival Survival equals safety Comfort equals invisibility And invisibility is vital For us to live a somewhat peaceful life 'Somewhat' because they even kill us in silence They even kill us despite our compliance When they see us we are greeted with violence There is a method to the existence of being black A formula so we don't go extinct An unwritten rule of safety A scientific mathematical equation to stay alive One we shouldn't have to know One we shouldn't have to know and follow The rules of surviving being black The fact that we don't even get a say on that They were just handed to us never looking back Never asking how we felt about that Being given a rulebook Thinking it was for all children But realising the non black kids had none They didn't have to learn how to 'be' when they were young And once you as a black person has realised this It's to late, for a wound would forever exist Your innocence stolen from a world full of racists All because of our skin From birth to death We are seen as a sin Their ignorance asks for an exorcist They think it will help to remove our blackness To send it to hells fiery pits So they can cremate and turn them into ashes Because to them we are worse than evil Which is ironic since they are our killers But they are the real devil's Even lucifer is not as sadistic as them For us hell would be heaven to us For we already have had a taste of it When living on earth is punishment enough When it already feels like an eternity of torment