Freedom from binary

Tell me not to single out,
one out of white and black,
why get tinted with one of two?
do diversity we lack ?
Preach if needed, speak aloud,
what is good and what is bad,
make me see the stark frontier,
but don’t they say it’s good to be bad?
Why air only dark and fair?
does mulatto not have a seraphic grace?
neither too dark, nor too light,
a perfect concoction to shade a face.
Why applaud only the day and night?
why not an immaculate evening?
when a cloak cladded sun in the horizon lay,
letting you wallow in the hours intervening.
Who does decide the right and wrong?
and the verdict, who substantiates?
you might say six, but my nine isn’t wrong,
this discord over validity who abates?
Why just fit into two boxes?
and over binary choices cry?
why not try the disparate possibilities,
before we all die ?

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