Yes America
Here where we hate the Other
This hate? “politics”.
Not America?
This systemic oppression?
Its the DNA.
This America.
You’ll tell someone “we’re equal”.
But pay equity?
But America
If we’re not pale with straight hair
were not your “standard”.
How America
Best nation in the world? Yet…
Highly violent.
You America
The real threat? White men and guns.
But thoughts and prayers.
Say America
We see homes, know what happens?
Gentrification.
No America
You’re not just. One police stop?
My skin? I could die.
That America
Where your Whiteness means comfort.
My Blackness your fear.
Oh America
You think your silence helps us?
Ha, you damn us all.
