Endure and Survive.

Would you betray me,

If my skin color was different from yours?

Would you deny me,

If my language was not home to your ears?

Would you forsake me,

If my traditions were a new experience to you?

Would you deny thy brother,

While wearing a false face of God?

Would you hunt me,

To rid your land of my existence?

Would you terrorize me,

To make your misguided heart feel valid in its sinful racism?

Would you beat me,

To have power over my skin, my mind, my soul?

Would you kill me,

To make things right in the eyes of your god?

Would you deny thy brother,

Just to shake hands with the devil that lives within you?

Would you lose your humanity,

Just to rid me of mine?

Would you decay your own soul,

Just to destroy mine?

Would you deny me, brother

If your bullets ripped through my flesh,

And with my last breath, I forgave you?

Would you deny me, brother

If I said I am sorry for the monster you've become?

Would you deny me, brother

If I told you that you can take my life, but you can NEVER take who I am?