Colors That Bleed -

Every day I see

Faces of the deceased

The past still haunts me

A clouded history

Painted before me

Colors that still bleed

We all play our part

Blackens my soul to know that I

Help every day institutionalize

And benefit while I decry

Naïveté threatens all of our lives

Stop and listen closely

Turn on any TV

Built into everything

In school it’s what we’re learning

White washing keeps it turning

The victor’s rewording

It never ends

We do as we are asigned

Into a single file line

Our hands are bound behind

Turn on each other and don’t question the design

We all play our part

Blackens my soul to know that I

Help every day institutionalize

And benefit while I decry

Naïveté is a coward’s disguise