Black and White World

(poems go here) Age five. He had that innocence we all once have. asking to play with someone of a different skin he knows no difference between people he sees His mother tells him we live in a “black and white world son” but those words have no meaning. Age sixteen. That young boy lost that innocence as we all do finding himself walking with his head down in shame. he walks in shame for something there is no control over he learned to see the world as his mother once told him “we live in a black and white world” Age twenty. He becomes tired of believing that he is of the lesser he grew up believing that he had to live in fear because of his skin that he deserves less because of a pigment he looks in the mirror and wishes people would see his heart before his skin he told himself that I am done living in this black and white world Age twenty-five. He shared a dream of equality that one day he could hold his head with pride that one day he could smile at his children playing and know they do not see the black and white world So he would march and fight and not turn back because as soon as he fell silent the battle had be lost he would go to walk-ins and sit-ins for America to be equal he strove to end the black and white world Today he walks with his his head held high. his world is filled with color he will never go back to that black and white world