Just Watch Me

It’s only a color. Just a color. Like red, blue, green, white. Only it’s darker. “Darker than night,” they say. “An animal,” they say. Simply a color. Why won’t they accept my color? I promise I won’t bite. I promise I won’t kill, Hurt your children, Rape you, I promise I won’t. All I want is freedom, A chance to show the world that I am worth it; A chance to prove you all wrong. You’re wrong! You are the animals! I will conquer; I will win. I am more. Martin Luther King Jr. is going to help me. He will stand when others won’t. He is the voice for the voiceless. A face for the “dark ones.” A life for the broken. Watch me. Watch me rise. You may laugh now, but I will win. Truth always wins. Just watch me. My movement will set the world spinning. We, together, can send the world back to harmony, But we can’t do it without sending it spinning first; Spinning back in the right direction. The direction of love, faith, and hope. The direction of truth. Just watch me.