What is Race

A Poem by InsanityPoems ~ Romire Scott

what is race please don't hate this is a poem by me

What Is Race

by: Romire Scott

These days, we hold guns

At the ones we once

held our guns for.

We give out freedom
As a broken promise.
We don’t care
For the things
That need it the most.

We’re raised on cartoons
And our parents’ words
About politics.
We’re raised to prepare;
To vote and to speak
For what they believe in.

But what if I believe in

Hating people who are racist

People play us like they play aces

Parents ask kids what they want and they say freedom

But in a few years they are in jail or killing themselves

The news always shows black on black

Going to jail Marching by ten and twelve

                                   We take advantage
                                Of what our country
                           Offers to us as “freedom.”
                              But freedom, actually
                               Is ignoring injustice,
                      And the so-called “morals”
                    Given to us when we are born.

We aren’t the soldiers
They try to shape us into.

                        We don’t have to live
                     By obeying the systems
                           That “run” us
                       By burning us out.
              Or stay safe and justified
              In the cage they put us in.