When the time came
For me to understand
The footing of thanks
Thinking you could send
Heavens eyes down upon
Me crimsonly. Love spilled
Forth and brought colour a
New definition seen as being
The eulogy my casket
Had painted white. Which comes
A word comely used to smother
Smogs of masked conception
Of being black.
Love in Black and White
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