Black, a dark poem.

    Black
as black
as a night

as a licorice

as your soul

as dried blood

as scorched earth

as a collar of a shirt
as the edges of  nails
as the sole of a booth
    that walks over you
as the inside of a bomb

as the flag of the us of a
as the beard of a woman
as hunger in North-Korea

    and Yemen and Tigray or

as murder for an empty creed

as coalminers pneumoconiocis

as the edge of a mourning card
as children's play on the Westbank

as an orthodoxe woman denied divorce
as every female genital mutilation    

     and any other kind of rape  

as the flam of any politician

as a tire that is snapped
as the devil in his hell
as an all white school

as a midnight mango

as blackboard black
as murder in Oslo

as a TV that’s off

as black as
     Black