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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

Copyright © Layla Riley-Hill

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