Arlene Corwin writes

It’s Suddenly ’In’ 

We’ve had to wait until it’s ‘in’.

Why must we wait

Until it’s late…too late

To get the message to not care

About the skin -

NOT be aware,

Period.

Absurd

That grisly murder 

Must take place

Before we register the obvious:

Oblivious to face, to race 

Without excuse or cause 

Or any justifying basis. 

Unattached indifference once expressed,

The chief compensation and success.

If evil has its origin in ethics and morality,

Dis-pathy (I made that up)

Vile, injurious;

Stinking, dirty, ruinous

Where all rejecting ‘-o u s’

Are harmful in the end,

Then hatred of the pigment 

Leads the trend.

Mindless hatred, mindless rage:

It it to represent our age?

In any case, I’ll join the group

Of ‘hoopdehoopers.’

Silently, I’ll  do my bit,

Writing a little, 

Saying to the world, “i love you all”.

Even if I too,

Have miles to go.