Unfortunately Limited

Unfortunately limited.
To a teaching that allows and permits,
Ignorance to condone it.
Too well I sat to learn those lessons.
Believing them to be for me a benefit.
Leaving me to eventually realize,
A paying a price to stay that way...
Left not one dividen to return.
From investing my mind and time,
Remaining unconcerned...
I restricted my own abilities.
That left me blaming to accuse,
Others pleased they taught me well.
And this I began to see for myself,
What they were teaching...
Had nothing to do with my capabilities.
No, not at all.
It had been my ethnicity.
And this as I grew I did not assume.
This I was made to accept and believe!

Yet,
What I discovered on my own to see,
Had conflicted with their beliefs.
Since what they were perceiving,
Had been a cover of a book to judge.
Quick to pick up and not to read,
The contents inside to decide...
I had been like others.
To decide for themselves to deny,
The opportunity I could for them provide.
No salesman then had I been.
Nor was I one to beg anyone,
To look beyond the cover and color...
Of my skin.
I was and still not that desperate.
To prove what I have inside to offer,
Is a difference made.
Not for me but them.
Those pretentious and unfortunately limited!

But...
Hey!
What more about that can I say?
I am a writer.
Not a therapist.
Nor one who judges beliefs of others.
Although I must admit,
Having obtained skills in observation.
And as I grow older,
My point of view...
For what ever the reason,
Has become unlimited.
With no time to waste and spend,
Wondering why many judge others...
By the the color of their skin.
Not to know what they offer,
That may or may not be of benefit to them.

And this these days we live and see,
Has become too obvious...
To continue to disbelieve,
Who the ones remaining stubbornly to stay...
Unfortunately limited.
Restricting themselves to censor,
Truth and reality kept to keep...
This done to believe,
A doing of it benefits their way of life.
Without evidence or proof that it does!