Stereotypes are ripe
with wrongs and untruths,
affecting all even youths.
Stereotypes are inky stripes
of words,
always trailing behind
in this world.
Stereotypes get stuck in our heads.
They can be found and read
in books and where you look.
Maybe there's no safe nook,
not even under the covers
on our beds.
Stereotypes are ripe
with wrongs and untruths,
affecting all even youths.
Stereotypes are inky stripes
of words,
always trailing behind
in this world.
Stereotypes fit some like a glove,
others fly away from them like doves.
Stereotypes (rarely) are loved,
sometimes they follow us to the grave,
no matter how strongly we go, brave.
We try to classify, our words the rakes
as if you could classify snowflakes.
Stereotypes are ripe
with wrongs and untruths,
affecting all even youths.
Stereotypes are inky stripes
of words,
always trailing behind
in this world.
Stereotypes may be the fuel or gruel
for judgement,
it's a terrible weapon, for some a tool
that they find cool.
Stereotypes'll lead to discrimination,
discrimination'll become our nation
and kindness'll be rationed.
Stereotypes are ripe
with wrongs and untruths,
affecting all even youths.
Stereotypes are inky stripes
of words,
always trailing behind
in this world.
Stereotypes can be stopped
if we took our duty as cops
instead of bystanders.
Stereotypes will never be grander
than being kinder.
Stereotypes are ripe
with wrongs and untruths,
affecting all even youths.
Stereotypes are inky stripes
of words,
always trailing behind
in this world.
Stereotypes can be stopped
if so, we pledged
to become full fledged
friends, guardians, cops.
I pledge.
Be I, insurgent
a soldier against the rulers.
Be I, divergent
from all the bystanders.
Be I, an agent
of good and gooder.
Be I, imminent.
Be I, instant.
What about you?
Will you be kind and true,
maybe scare away the stereotypes
with the word, 'boo'?
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