Without Hue
Without Hue
WHITE
a sign in all caps meaning
forbidden
first class
clean and more importantly correct.
Bedsheets and tablecloths
flowing in the night
with madness most great
slowly blanketing the world’s peoples
in a snow of blond descent
while faces of the past that tainted African blood
stare back from the 21st century reflection
ever reminding that BROWN is a composite color.
BLACK
blindness that walks into a brick wall
songs of agony as tears stream down sweat laden faces
tempered by sun and strain
midnight with bleakness unimaginable.
Red and green Seventies' fists held pridefully
in defiant propriety as a word
became transformed from scorn to unity.
Ebony oneness that sounded better than
*****,
dying quietly into African-American.
BLACK is having no color, without hue.
WHITE is having no color, without hue.
Doesn’t that sound the same to you?
1/21/18
What is White?
Sponsored by: Debbie Guzzi
5th place
Copyright © Janis Thompson | Year Posted 2018
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