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Eyes Always Extended


Something old, and something new

Something borrowed, and something blue

Borrow the sky

Whose clouds are like little marshmellows

The ones you put in your hot chocolate

As the sun sets, the marshmellows melt into a warm horizon

Impossible to taste

Our arms are only 2  feet long

 

When the sun betrays us

We are prejudice

Racism strikes into our hearts

"Don't go out there"

"It's dark outside"

 

Discrimination is blinding, not the darkness

Crickets and creatures

Perfect the Music of the Night

Such an Anthem

A free concert

The only enterance fee is acceptance

None of us attend

 

Our biases last a few hours

The black clouds transform

We accept all colors here

The sky cotton blushes a pink

Chokes on purple

And sweats out orange

Until the white sheets return

Unstained from the previous hours

 

We rise again

Extending our never-reaching arms

 

 

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