22. Thinking Too Light, Too White

Thinking Too Light, Too White

you who thought your color would never be dark enough, your stations never low enough to place you at the front of the line of hate crimes

you, my asian brothers of colored disregard and apathy who stood appallingly, quiet at the back of that long line of people of color, whilst the darker people, at its front long suffering, long enduring the crimes of hate you now blatantly suffer in that same light of day black men are slain in

you, who stood appallingly quiet, back far enough to not hear and not to be heard

far enough to not want to hear the cries, pretending not to see, the crimes against humanity suffered those queued up from darker hue to lighter hue in front of you, blocking you, keeping you, distancing you from white crimes against humanity

thinking too light, too white you thought your turn in line would never come to be so you sat quietly, appallingly miscalculating how quickly any colored one of us can be the next one amongst us in line for white hate crimes against humanity