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The Truth about Society


Society has a priority to make me extinct,

only because I am not of their same skin color and I choose to think

 

If I was someone who was ignorant and violent,

 I would put a smile on their face because this stereotype is not silent

 

But because I am a Black man who has acquired a taste for knowledge and is born to lead,

they throw everything at me in the book forgetting that at one time they let me hold the keys

 

When I look back at my past and see the faults that I have made,

i choose to use them as a stepping stone to prolong my call to the grave

 

If this poem somehow insults those with thin skin,

understand that this is the truth about society that I live in

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Quintin X

Graduated of The College of New Rochelle, Veteran of U S Armed Forces Former NYS Correction Officer Actor for Street Line Productions Owner of Q Xavier Publications Poet on the LMS Show

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