Skittles Racism

by ShadowHeart   Mar 10, 2005


Discrimination
The word tastes like bitter espresso
On my tongue
It makes me gag
To think of how people treat each
other
When they're different colors
Just because they were born
Somewhere else
Like skittles scattered around the
world
All poured from the same bag
And look
Crack them open and you'll find
They all have the same
Sweet center
But people judge by the coating
On the outside
Whatever flavor candy surrounds
The inside
It doesn't matter that half a
centimeter in
Everything looks the same
It doesn't matter that we all come
from
The same place
Some anonymous factory in the
middle of
Nowhere
Because people don't want to see
the
Similarities
They don't want to see
That we all come from the same
Rainbow

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  • 20 years ago

    by ~:.GodeSsOfTemPtati0n.:~

    i liked this one... =) very interesting.... keep writing =)
    hope u pass by mine =) votes and comments much appreciated...
    much love
    letishia

  • 20 years ago

    by pinkalias

    I really liked the main idea that you had and the symbols you used relating the the "taste the rainbow" slogan. However, you poem didn't really flow. I think you need to work on the format because the rhythm seems to be nonexisting or just all over the place.
    I did enjoy these lines,
    "Discrimination
    The word tastes like bitter espresso
    On my tongue"
    But I think a better way to have written it would be perhaps,
    "the word tastes like
    bitter espresso on my tounge"
    I see what you were trying to do, but it didn't quite flow.
    I also admired the last two lines,
    "That we all come from the same
    Rainbow"
    that was a meaningful and conclusive way to end the poem.
    overall, well done

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