By Faith Ikpeama
It’s like we are living in a house split into floors
Maybe we’d be good if we accept all our flaws
But I don’t see a reason for you to hate me because of my color
It’s not a weapon or my fault, it’s just by nature
You want to copy our style and everything that we own
Try to take our culture and make it your own
A black man can’t drive without the cops trying to start up a fight
And his son watch his dad on the ground struggling with all his might
I hope tears dry up of the people crying
But it won’t bring back the black souls of the people dying
Cut us all up and red is the single color we all bleed
Equality is the quality we need on earth
Give and receive its karma that you will
earn
I know personally I’m not racist
I can’t see a white man in need and turn east
So why see a black man and turn to a beast
But to your own race u become a priest
Meanwhile u just took a black soul who’s last words were “ I can’t breathe ”
There’s a disconnect between your culture and mine
And I hope that we find the cord so we all can be fine
The time is always right to do what is right
I’d love to speak up now than watch a black man killed
“To ignore evil is to be accomplice to it”
Martin Luther king Jnr
I hope it all ends soon like it would for a tenure
About the poet
My name is Faith Ikpeama, I’m 16 years old and a proud student of Pearlville school. I strongly believe speaking up and doing what our forefathers didn’t get the opportunity to do is the best way to end this inequality for good.
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THE RACE TO EQUALITY PROJECT 