Unlearning The Prejudice

Your skin reflects indigo, a river blue-black.
Blindness is warmth. Flames grasp walls,
feel their way through.
Multi-racial inferno
burn history a mouth.
Tell what our breath says.
Make the deaf hear.
Brooks babble cheap talk,
streams shallow, blur.
But the blunt edge of a razor
repeatedly falling on flesh
nevertheless pierces blood.
Unlearn the prejudice.
Contemptful whitewash
covers textures. Use
a brush. Scrub.
Melting pot multiplicity,
diverse humans
share truth. Let shame
slip away from faces
like fingers.
Drink glory, several
tributaries, one color,
undesignated.