ROLE REVERSAL
Come here my black people
Consider this
If your race numbered among the highest
Could you even resist?
Or, would you erect walls
That your pale faced brothers could not climb
Shields, he could not penetrate
Shores, along which, he could never cruise
Let alone, cross
Or, navigate
Would you infest his neighborhoods,
With the most potent, intoxicating drugs and
elixirs
Knowing its tendency for demise
Its sole purpose as tragedy fixers
Which his kind could never resist
Would you form glass palaces and corporate veils
To which his wings could never set sail
Would you allow him to marinate in the stench
Of poverty
Or, shoot him down like animals,
in the filthy streets
Would you cage his brothers
disproportionately
Insisting to him, all the while,
That the legal system is JUST
Knowing full well, it is vile
And, would you stack all the cards of life
In your favor
Leaving, nothing more than scraps
For him to savor