I am always ignored
I am always humiliated
I am always cheated
Is this all just because
Of my skin colour?
They say people with
Darker skin are aliens
But isn’t the colour
Of our blood the selfsame?
When did we become aliens?
We all are from the same race
The colour of our blood Red.
They told him to go
to the back door, face
the wrong shade
to walk in the front
Years later they would
tell him the playing
field was equal, those
were the sins of long-
ago ancestors
They would tell him
he lives in a country
that is longer racist,
sexist, or classist
But he would take
a long look around
and beg to differ.
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Queer
first-generation
Chinese-American
woman.
I embody nearly everything
the red puzzle pieces
of our country
stand against.
I sobbed until I couldn’t breathe.
But my friends
ignited a storm,
sympathy rain
and solidarity wind.
Hope lives on
in the minorities
the fighters
the dreamers.
We will not be silenced.
This is our fight,
America’s fight,
the world’s fight.
And we won’t back down.
Why do we talk about women’s rights?
When shall we consider them human rights?
Why do we put up with a man
who calls a woman “disgusting”
when she wants to extract from her body
the precious fluid that helps her baby think and thrive?
Albert Einstein said we should never stop asking questions,
but if he had been a woman,
her statement might have been trashed.
Let them all marry,
all of them,
let them be human too,
find a better reason
to dislike others,
or better no reason at all.