Nonconformity

Red

Angel in the sky

Devil crucified

“You cannot be both, all or none,” they say

Systems state you must be one way, their way

Or suffer the consequences of nonconformity and physically, emotionally and psychologically pay.

Whiteness

Decided for us

At a young age

By colonial systems and institutions

From blank slates

To binary, capitalist bate

Force-fed a white, ableist and heteronormative script

Groomed, shaped and assimilated

Until our bodies reject the poison and feel downright sick and ailing.

Black and Brown

Wings clipped off at birth

One body after another

Until we desperately try to fly

To only be gunned down to rot, stationed in a purchased lot.

Systemically just another number into a grave

Since it costs more to die than it does to be saved.

Orange, yellow and green

My nonconformity is bisexual, poly and non-binary

Whatever your nonconformity may be

You are beautiful and valid

And should be protected at all costs against the alt-right chaos.

Jeez, there have been too many lives lost

At the mercy of socially constructed binaries and corrupted elitist bots

Prioritizing economics before its tots.

With each chiming, violet voice

Mass-producing collective noise

Institutions will be forced to listen

As we, the true colours, are in charge of this backwards caste system.

My differing and empowering shades are my refusal to conform

It is the fuel to empower change

Watch me, again and again

Break out of the norm

*Breathe*

And face the sadistic, neocolonial storm.