Do you still think it’s fair?
When being black in a mixed society
is defined by my mentality
and not the colour of my skin

When once an old man came up to me
and asked me
how old I am
and I told him

I am a mind older than
a man who thinks that
Black and White is division
Small and Big is sowing
A man who thinks that
Crime is ambition

“But you’re only 17,how’d you come up with such…
Now tell me,how old are you young lady?”

And for the last time
my lips moved,my body still.
I am a mind older than a man
who thinks that
age is just ink
small does not think
now mind what you say old man
Because
I am a mind older than you