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Segregation

The color of my tie  
And the color of my skin  
Won't alter what I know  
Or change who I am within  
 
Taste your own medicine  
It's the same thing that you do  
Maybe you'll figure out  
Why everyone leaves you  
 
Look beyond your mirror  
At the face behind the glass  
Inside you are inferior  
You need more God than Sunday mass  
 
Each time that you reflect  
The cancer in you has grown  
Do you still wonder why  
You are always left alone?  
 
See with wiser eyes  
If your eyes are all you have  
Watch your bias fossilize  
Two good eyes will make it halve  
 
Look inward to your heart  
You will see the other side  
Embrace your counterpart  
Release this Aryan pride  
 
Your Grandfather's glory  
His Nazi blood within you  
So proud to tell his story  
So eager to hate those he taught you to  
 
You assume they're guilty  
Of the judgments that you make  
You've said "They're Not Real People”  
You can't convince me that they're fake  
 
Claiming they're all the same  
But I know that isn't true  
And the only person you can make me hate  
Is the person inside you  
 
Toe to toe and eye to eye  
Death can't get us pride apart  
Now the only thing that needs to die  
Is the hatred in your heart  
Written by Poetryman
Published | Edited 12th Oct 2017
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