Childhood Discrimination Poems

Resentment builds where grass won't grow,
Where birds don't fly and bugs don't go,
Nothing can ever be sowed,
And water rises and flows and flows.
The roots have...

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In shadows cast by prejudice, a knock resounds,
At the door of your heart, where peace abounds.
Brother, let not questions cloud the air,
For I am like...

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In me, is my strongest  part
...My heart...
It is made of stone
From time alone
Stronger than bone
Super dented Super man
Of the world I'm not a fan
I...

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Hell

       sinners are destined
         for inferno domain or hell,
  ...

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Sitting here in this dark room
Here we're all darkness rules
There over by the shoe rack
Is the reality clear and stark
That I will never be loved
Nor...

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The first time I had a seizure,
I was in class, at the front to be precise
I'd been called up to do a sum
When in a...

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The Tramp Persona
Who was this boy, a pauper born?
Existing in despair and continual forlorn
Scandalized, accused of communist sympathies
Encompassing both adulation, and social controversies
Charlie Chaplin how...

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I can't save the planet, 
from all of its problems
working together
you could overcome suffering

Working together 
you could save together 
creating wealth for yourself
and employment for...

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“Is gray a color?” the pigeon asked the clouds.

“We’re not sure,” said the clouds, then asked, “Why?”

The pigeon shrugged and said, “See the robin, brown...

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Sentimentality

Most curious 
duality ... this
Sentimentality

Excessive tenderness,
sadness, nostalgia
corrupting modality,
distorting reality's
social edifice

Brain-cramping
contortion,
fierce pressure
building,
Sentimentality
wielding an
assault on
humanity! 

Liars lie with
impunity
Childhood
lessons lost
Darkness 
perverting civility 

Root of irrational passions,
misplaced idealism—
This insidious,
ever-swelling...

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Social issues affects many people from all walks of life. 
A nation of destruction from past to present days from addictions, excess bank fees, church...

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Some scars from our childhood are easy to explain
I fell off my bike or I fell climbing the tree in my backyard
Others are from surgery...

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I have one sock and it is blue
Here’s another, which makes two.

But the second sock is red and white!
There’s something here that is not right.

What...

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What if we'd met at Jackson Memorial in the neonatal ward,
Placed ever so gently, side by side, facing the outside world?
And our parents and relatives...

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JUST CAUSE

Without cause, teachers, classmates, and neighborhood kids mocked at my pitiful station of poorness and entrenchment in painful shyness, calling me dreadful names that...

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