Whiteness Poem by Black Consciousness Poetry BCP

'Black people are stupid'
but not you, you are not like
Them, she smile and you
smile to easy the uneasiness
of the situation, then later
in your room you cry alone,
then you decide to a pen
and write a poem.



WHITENESS

Suddenly something is
done or something is
said, it might not be real
But its true, for a while it
hangs on the air like fart,
no one seems to claim it,
like thorn bushes it rub
against your exposed
skin, piling old wounds
open, it suppose to hurt
but the cruelty of time
has taught you well enough,
to live with the pain, not to
find your voice, for it always
seems like to summon courage
is hard than learning to breath
when air is thicker, in the mist
of whiteness, your blackness is
naked, it embarrass you, it reminds
you what you are, a thing, something.

|Suss KaMzibeni|