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The Portrait of Prejudice

Intrigued by the faces and their features,
Inspired by the colours and their hues,
Inscribed sketches of them on the blank canvas,
Inline to the outlines of the colourless sketches,
Inked and imbued the inlines, in hues of whites, yellows, browns, and blacks,
 
In no time the integrity in diversity of shapes and colours has  faded,
In excess intoxication of sketches with their own colour and shape
Immediately turned the colourful portrait into a dark and violent smudge,
Inequalities among the sketches soon turned into pride and prejudice,
 
Incense and hatred overtook, and subdued the harmony among the hues,
Infuriated with the hatred and abhorrence filled among my own sketches,
I erased and painted them all in the same shape and colour,
I painted them all bald, and unisex, but,
In a moment of disbelief and dismay my sketches soon turned against me,
Insulted, and accused me, that the colour my eyeball is white and my iris is coloured!

(2014)

Dedicated to all the victims of discrimination based on race, ethnicity, colour, creed, wealth, disability, gender, sex, and sexual-orientation

#Colour #Hate-crimeRace

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