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Our minds

April 7, 2010
By Kelsey.Mae SILVER, Columbus, Montana
Kelsey.Mae SILVER, Columbus, Montana
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Joined together hand in hand,
we will walk this beautiful, fine, vast land.
The tears we cry, mend our break,
two friends, two worlds, our lives at stake.
Skin so different but minds so alike,
what we're doing is "wrong", but we felt it was "right."
That we are in many ways the same,
and the inner angst of his, my color to blame.
Not me, I love him, by buddy forever,
we know we'd die if found together.
Two colors, both friends, take a stand,
and we'll walk into heaven, hand in hand.


The author's comments:
My class and I went to the Yellowstone Art Museum in Billings, Montana and we were learning about the pieces of Transforming Hate where the artists had used books of racism and sexism and created them in a new way such as taking all the words out of the books, making colorful cranes out of them or even made paintings of those sort of things. It opened up my mind in a new way in which made me feel like like almost everyone has been mistreated and how horrible it would be to live in the past and have the discrimination that was present. So I wrote about a black and white friend that was technically forbidden back in the day to be together.

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