Perfect beings

posted fb 16/11/13


#283 Your perfection makes me blue



You are so perfect so efficient


You are tall and statues


Me short and squat


I am just a smudge


To be rubbed out 


I am lke a midge, a gnat, a moth


You are superior 


I can see why God made you


Me I question my existence


Whenever I am next to you

Everything you do you do well

Life for me is a mystery

Wondering if I have wandered into Hell

Waiting for a bell

To ring to signify my purpose

As I begin to believe I am truly worthless

The Lead role for a Black Actor is full of expectations

Tell me you haven't noticed, I will say you are lying.  I watch a fair amount of tv some would say too much.  I have noticed there is this trend to paint Black characters as stereotypes of themselves then send them up and ridicule them.  What this does for the perception of that person in the real world, I can only speculate.  It is fine for those who live in an environment where they encounter many different cultures and can get a chance to make their own assessment.  lets hope everyone is giving a fair chance and whatever they have seen on tv does not influence how they treat that person.

posted fb 17/11/13

#284 The lead

How do they do it

I don’t need to ask why

they can make us the ‘star’

making us the lead guy

if we are not killed in the opening lines

we sit and wonder why

we are subjected to this degradation

of another black guy

we sit and cringe

and wish we wasn’t there

to bare witness to his fate

they will send him up

and humiliate

take Will Smith

in ‘last man alive’

(I am Legend)

he was the hero in our eyes

until it turns out

it was all  vain

he didn’t have the complete story

so his struggle was unnecessary

now I know we don’t control the media

but can we not control our greed

leaving legacies for the young

is an important need