In a collage of colors i came into consciousness...

Born Black
and dispised for not being white
i saw red
when i realized people were deemed different and
in my anger
i chased yellow hair with
greenbacks
to get back at
pink-toed penile-phobic perverts persecuting pigmented peoples the world over

incarcerated
gloomy gray and
blue
i grew clear-ice cold and
bold
when i saw what lay in the pot of gold...

Freedom.