Why Racism

Why Racism 

Asked not to come in this matter, designed after a pattern

Everything seen evokes this human specimen

To live, to breathe this air where mine, in essence, is rare 

A container cracked, to facilitate, none to compare 

Asked not to come in this skin, this hair, everything I'm in

Unique I am, dare not to be another, felt here within

The essence of my beauty shines forth in diversity, as seen

It's what makes joy for living, for giving, for removing the obscene 

In only one race, where human beings live, what's with discrimination?

Why racism when our differences are a light shining through this prism

Where once colorless, it brings a variety of colors from one source

As ethnicities arrive out of One, each to live out their purpose 

Of one blood, we were made, while just red for so many types.

Everywhere bears evidence of our oneness, we so dislike

One place from whence we came to one place we will go

We fear what begs us to encounter lovingly, yet refuse to know

Textures and resources of this one earth invite us to touch another

See that we are more the same, a brother, a sister 

When common to all who came with nothing but to live and love 

We return to a place where, for all who once lived, did we love?