It doesn't matter
At least, that's what the ghost told me "It doesn't matter, get over it, move along" And this too shall pass It got so redundant and annoying, I started to break the box
Push the boundaries
Exceed the limits and go beyond expected
I started to think and why doesn't it matter? Because it just doesn't
Oh?
The clothes you wear, the food you eat, the education of your children, and their graceful life matters. The brands you shop, you saying "yes" v.s "stop", the places you live in, and the things you're given matters
Why not US? Because It just doesn't
That I'm not given the same education or opportunity as your child that sits in the same class as me, that my words mean nothing and
people just keep going like the wind keeps blowing and that's why I have kids in the first place...
Because they didn't hear me say "stop"
That my children don't eat and my name brand is "Good Will". That doesn't matter That I'm nothing more than a sweet piece of chocolate with a caramel center
One day
That I'm nothing more than a black fur wolf
On other days
That I'm the dirt that you stand on
Most days That I'm just another burden
On the rest of those days
They, the white chocolate, they tell me and my brethren that it doesn't matter That we are just more cogs in the machine of the supreme white capitalist country that was originally built off of my and my people's backs
And walking up the street, the ghost follows me, crosses blazing and howls grazing the ears of the dirt that they trample over. That saying something as simple as "Good morning"
Introducing that I'm actually well spoken therefore makes me an alien. That my children and their children and their children are doomed to the back of the line in class
Back of the bus
Back of the class, as the back burner shit
That I cannot work with the ghost because I'm still a member of the living. It just doesn't matter That I'm forced to live with the worst crime that the
....."United States" of America
Can put on a human head and it IS being 5 skin tones darker in complexion than my neighbors. Apparently that makes my head not a human one
Nor my children's
Nor my brethren's
It doesn't matter
That the so-called "US-of-A" should actually be called "The black man's country" The ghost boast and say "our land" while standing' on our heads while we wait at their hand, and even the foreigners call it "the white man's land" and it all doesn't matter
That the 4th of July is the Earth's tears because the ghost tells the living it doesn't matter. That's because the ghost are free of the burdens of life like the pointless winds that breaths from the Earth They float on
and we rot
Oh that's why, I inquire
Because ghosts dwell in the shadows of gray
the dirt grows flowers that make this Earth brighter every day
We do matter
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