Indecency

a brief peek into human nature

 

Indecency

 

Why are those subjected to hate

Always undeserved?

Why should the differences

By which we discriminate,

be on the outside?

Should we not discriminate

those who are black in soul and not skin?

The ones who only hate

The ones who sit behind television screens,

And tabloid themes,

believing every word they’re told:

hate, rape, drugs, scandal, murder.

And I am naïve!

On that sofa you will rot.

You sit and hate anything you are not,

And will not perceive otherwise,

I call this ignorance;

I call this kin?

But look at you,

Something you’re so afraid to do.

You’re the worst of the lot.

Author's Note

its not final i just knocked it up in five minutes i wanna change the beginning and the vocab it says hate too much methinks need to thesaurus it a bit

Reviews

[Psi Phi]

"Should we not discriminate

those who are black in soul and not skin?"

Nice. I think "and not skin" makes it too easy for the reader. "Black in soul" gets the message across, just enough to make the reader contemplate.

"On that sofa you will rot.

You sit and hate anything you are not,"

I love this.

"But look at you,

Something you're so afraid to do.

You're the worst of the lot."

This ending is great. Personally, I don't think "but" is necessary. The ending conveys the poem in its entirety, though. Well done.