Prejudice Poem by Adookorn Auaduma

you bully him by his colour, label
him with the #hashtag of contempt
for a colour he did not make -

something you can not change

you despise him by his colour, pass
judgement before he could say a word
for a colour he did not bargain -

something you can not classicise

you scold him by his colour, cage
him in entangled web of cold feet
for a colour he did not conjure

something you can not abjure

yet; you dote the sky dressed in motley, birds
arrayed in etch smorgasbord plumage
and floral groomed in variety of colours

to appeal and satisfy our senses

you adore blacks coz you are black,
cherish whites coz you are white
and cold-shoulder nature's oneness

as if you can turn the wheel of nature

how much will you have adore birds
of same colour of black or white soar
in a sky of same hue of black or white

if not for their varieties of colour display

you abhor him, scorn variety; please
swerve underneath his skin and uncover
his psyche lay silent in fabrics of gold

it's not black or white as well

cocooned in grey-dark embroidery
of guess work open to interpretation;
it's the person and not the colour

that the narrow-minded predicates!