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Teen Poetry #5

Black Man

hoppy
Member

since 2000-01-27

Posts 271

0 posted 2001-10-18 07:21 PM

Darkness covered the room;
dim light through window pane;
seeing the impending doom
it felt so mundane.

man came through the door,
the night made him look black.
didn't know what he was,
until I stabbed him in the back.

then he looked up at me,
my brother laying on the floor.
how can this be?
he looked like a black man
when he came through the door.

---Written by:Hoppy

3-16-00

What is it you have to answer?
But to answer you have to ask?
And to ask you have to speak?
And to speak you have to know,
The answer.

Dopey Dope

Moderator

Member Patricius

since 2000-08-30

Posts 11132
San Juan, Puerto Rico

1 posted 2001-10-18 07:33 PM

At first I thought this was a racist statement, but then I read it again and it doesn't come across like that at all. It was very well written and I liked it very much. You wrote it nicely.

I was born myself, raised myself, and will continue to be myself. The world will just have to adjust.

Somewhere out there a cow is laughing at you

AngelPoet87
Member

since 2001-04-21

Posts 280
Indy

2 posted 2001-10-19 05:33 PM

This was well done, I like the message enclosed. Good job

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