Boiling Point



Hate me tirelessly and let your maleficence ooze its viscous form.
From the depths of a soul blacker than my skin you hate, hate.
Shun love. Shun peace. Shun warmth. They lie.
Nuzzle only that jagged, insatiable yearning for my sweet suffering. This will warm you.
Now watch the once-enlightened abandon you. Do not second guess.
This is you. Not a thing that you believe, not the product of your past.
This is you.

You are warm, now burn.
Burn me, I deserve it right?
Don’t answer that.
Burn them, you've come too far not to.

About this poem

I am black and African and in this poem I am the conscience of a white man on the verge of committing a hate crime

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Written on June 14, 2022

Submitted by 0chiel on October 18, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXXAXXA XXXA
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 529
Words 107
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 7, 4

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