We are the Same

You laugh and you cry;
With watery tears and a voice like mine;
We look so different yet we are the same;
No, no, this is no mistake;

You are black and I am white;
Yet our skin is just alike;
We look so different yet we are the same;
No, no, this is no mistake;

I have lived a broken life;
You have lived with money, no crime;
Yet we have lived such desperate lives;
Our cries for help just alike;

Recognize our struggle, we are not the past;
We want to be able to be able to see our world last;
We want the love, friends, and glory;
We always strive to tell our story;

No, ones perfect as can be;
Not you not me;
We look so different yet we are the same,
No, no, this is never a mistake...

Author's Note

One of my first poems. If you find anything offensive in it, please notify me, for I didn't mean to offend anybody.

Reviews

[MFrano1]

Nothing offensive here, at least as far as I'm concerned, though this has been a controversial issue as of late. I like it, it is well written, and it seems to me like it was written with the right intentions. For example, while you're wrote this with the intention of spreading the message that racism is wrong and we are all alike, it reminds me that some people seem to hide behind their race as a way to argue anything others say that they don't like. I'm not saying that everyone does, or even the majority, its just enough that I'm validated in saying this... I don't mean to offend anyone with this either, and if it does I'll take this comment done. Just an observation... Anyways, this was a great first shot, or even a good shot for someone who has been writing for a year.

[Angela Sparks]

Thank you very much for this. I know it has been in issue, which is how I got the inspiration to spread the issue in my own way. Adding the "notify if you find anything offensive" is just something I find to be polite to put on my writing because I can't be to sure that someone won't have offense to something and I not realize it could be taken the wrong way.

[christopher fox]

Awesome job for one of your first poems. Keep it up!