Indoctrinating
Who has not from birth,
Discovered to find intoxicating...
A practicing to rehearse,
An indoctrination thirst.
To learn lessons taught,
That will seduce all minds...
With beliefs of success achieved,
Determines upon the things we get.
And where they were purchased.
For no other purpose but just to impress.
Who has not from birth felt worthless.
When scrutinized from head to toe.
First for our ethnic heritage.
Then questioned about,
The ancestral blood...
Flowing through our veins.
Blue.
Before the mixture of air turns it red.
Who has not from birth,
Felt it a must they should defend...
A life blessed to be given.
To then compare,
Who is valued and has more worth.
Although descendents we all are,
Of both Cain and Able.
Products produced by Adam and Eve.
Where in the Garden of Eden...
Sins were created and deception conceived.
And still today,
Throughout a history to teach it...
In ways fiction to delude.
There are people,
Of various races to prove...
No one is exclusively pure of anything.
Accept an ignorance to defend.
And the absence of knowing,
The reality and truth of our existence.
With many trying to end,
A diversity they have been taught to believe...
Would leave humanity better off,
If their own ancestors, historically...
Had been color free.
'No one is born to be color free.'
I know this to notice it.
You know this to notice it.
And yet there are those,
Who refuse to accept...
The truth that exposes,
Our continous allegiance.
Pledged to the maintaining,
The keeping of our own ignorance defended.
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Written on May 10, 2022
Submitted by lpahtillah on May 10, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Stanza Lengths | 10, 8, 10, 14, 1, 8 |
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