sjsprWriting

We are music-makers,

We are poets

We are lovers

We are artists

We are mixed bloods

We are peacemakers

We are more than we seem to be

They are critics

They are killers

They are fighters

They are judgers

They are racists

They are haters without reason

They are structured, they are broken

I am writing melodies

You are writing lyrics

I am rhyming

You are massacring my fluidity

I am loving our rivers. Merge.

You are fighting them. Dams.

I am painting our futures interwoven

You are focused on today alone

I am harmonious togetherness

You are biased

I am the middle man

You are on the left side, never right

I am always treading forward

But you,

You are holding me back.