The Colour of our minds
What if crows were white,
Or off white,
Would our hearts still not look down upon them as ravens, as scarecrows,
Or,
As inauspicious;
But then,
Our hearts are red,
Our skins are brown,
And that of crows aren’t neither,
What then is the colour of our rusted minds?
Brown again like rust;
The poem ‘The Colour of Our Minds’ is composed by Saikh Md. Sabah Al-Ahmed, Guwahati Assam, India
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