Used by us since we were little;
crying to get what we wanted.
Over time it becomes a game,
ask a teenager.
There are some Masters of this tool
like politicians, pastors, lawyers...
I'm not judging,
I work in sales.
This tool can turn a no into a yes.
Could be used to deceive a reality.
It loses its effectiveness
in independent and empowered people.
We use it and it is used on us.
Let's be very aware of this powerful tool.
Let's examine motives and honesty.
That we are not a victim or victimizer.
Categories:
victimizer, corruption, leadership, words,
Form: Free verse
Mirror melted, and I enclosed in solid space of ice
Intersperse images, direlict of other's maiming vice.
Mimicry is not a benign deceit as you would think
Incontestable illusions brought my race to this brink
Cramped with penury and self mutilations. The image
Rinsed in the shadowy world of water, watch it change
Yesterday's victim for the victimizer. I feel a strange
Intertwining of silhouettes, a sinister string, a damage
Suspiciosly hard to explain in the colonizer's world
My usefulfulness replaced by my uselessness, the shell
Upstaged, left in sand's silence for shimmering of pearl
Rude those conquistadores settling in the benign hell
Dangerous not to them who make us unreal in the real
Essence of fire, and by sly ambiguities cruelly conceal
Racial meanings, except where minstrelsy glimpse desire.
Categories:
victimizer, political,
Form: Acrostic