What is the mood?



The sky was filled with dark clouds of uncertainty as she stepped onto the bus platform and into her new life-

For a moment she asked herself *why*?

Why is she *black*… Why can a heart break with just one crack? How in the world do we turn our backs? At one point we couldn’t sit in the back.

Oh, 2022 we lived in a zoo, police *brutality* running through. What should we do? Can we riot, chant or hope you do!

Life is *unfair*, don’t know how much she can bear. Every shot of life feels like a tear. Every beating she can’t repair.

When will she *fight*, fight for her rights? Maybe today she saw a light. Light so bright she refused to fight.

The world is *beating* her down, running is all she found. All she is doing is running around. Around the fear of being black.

Running around avoiding cracks. Around the *fear* of never coming back.

All the words I have with stars…

Shows us why we need to balance.
*Color* is nothing but pigment.

Pigment is only the outside. The outside *doesn’t matter * when she’s more inside. Inside is heart and inside is care.

You know internally, she should have no fear… Peel back her skin, and she’s all the same… Very few things are different... *insane*-

About this poem

Do you know what it’s like growing up in a society where people don’t like you because of your skin color and the clothes on your back. It’s scary. I grew up with pretty nice life outside of school but in school I felt so alone and different.

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Written on January 25, 2023

Submitted by spoken_0 on January 25, 2023

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme X X A X B X A A X XX B X
Characters 1,235
Words 246
Stanzas 12
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1

Tenai Willoughby

I grew up in a decent household. Not wanting or needing for anything but acceptance. My goal is to bring awareness to society of what we go through. I was put in situations as a kid nobody should ever have to go through. I’m 21 and when I was in the tenth grade a teacher of mine. Mrs Brown and Hooper, introduced me into the world of poetry. more…

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