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Reflection

March 10, 2015
By ereed BRONZE, St. Louis, Missouri
ereed BRONZE, St. Louis, Missouri
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Favorite Quote:
"I'm standing on a field full of land mines, doing the moonwalk, hoping I blow up in time." -Kendrick Lamar


I see evil growing in my eyes

It spreads like a culture, dark and black.

Seeing darkness, my hatred has no disguise.

 

Once it reaches its peak, there’s no turning back.

I must prevent what others fail to see.

The incessant growth of this evil, black.

 

The world does not notice, how can this be?

This dark mass, cancerous in every way.

Conspicuous it seems, but only to me.

 

Through ignorance, surely, a price we will pay.

The threat that they carry is greatest to me.

Only I want the darkness gone by today.

 

My unjust hatred for dark, now I see

Light has appeared, and the true evil is me.


The author's comments:

A lot of the racial tension brought about by the Mike Brown, Tamir Rice, and Eric Garner cases influenced me to write this poem that looks at the world through the eyes of someone who is racist or intolerant.


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