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Our colors are one

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    White


Orion’s Belt doesn’t cinch his hopes the way it used to

and lately, he thinks more about Jim Beam than Jim Crow

and both are travesties.

He feels guilty for something he’s not quite sure of,

but the whiskey helps to make him cold

and he kind of likes it that way.



    Black


He awakes to the staccato sounds of gunfire and the flashing of lights

and prays to a God he’s not so sure is listening that it’s no one he knows,

this time.

He feels so trapped inside himself, in poverty,

in a system that has been designed for him to fail.

He becomes embittered.



    Blue


She awakes in cold sweats, remnants of a slew of images

she will never unsee.

Her last thought as she puts on her badge and heads to work

is of the family she knows she must return to.

She puts herself in danger to help others out of it

and she deserves respect.





No matter what color you claim,

nor riches, nor privilege, nor fame,

our hues are one and the same,

we all bleed Red.
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Man, what a trip that took me on. That was pretty awesome.