STREETS of AMERICA #Poem by David Sparenberg

 

(& Citizens of Creation)

1.
The look of the white man
Is feared and hated
The look of the white man
Is fared and hated
The look of the white man
Is feared and hated
On the streets of America

I hasten to assure
People of color – brother
Sister – my friends
I am not one of them.
I am not one of them.

I look at you
In the beauty of your dignity.
I look at you
With our shared humanity.
And I stand beside you
In the struggle for equality.
I stand beside you
Always
In the struggle for equality.

We too are together
In the streets of America
We too are together
In the streets of America
We too are together - here
In the conflicted streets of America.

2.
Everyone ever born
Is born on the Earth.
Everyone born on the Earth
Belongs here.

There is no “human scum”*
Except those who lie
Defraud and deceive
Those who use
An ideology of race to
Inflict suffering.
And those who kill - Kill for power - Kill
For the pathology of greed - Kill
In the sadistic (ego-
centric sadism) of domination.
False hierarchies
In the halls of power
Empires of untruth
On the streets, the streets, the streets
The broken streets of traumatized world history.

Who is superior by birth?
Who is inferior by skin color?
By what law contrived
Of hypocrisy and corruption?
By what criminal
Code and malicious intention?

There are no “shithole nations”*
Except those which betray freedom
For tyranny. Those that justify
Ruining lives and happiness – Leaders
Who violate human right – Agendas
For war – arrogant-ignorance
And charnel profiteering.

If we want a habitable future
For our children and grandchildren
The time is upon us
Today tomorrow, the day after.
If we insist on peace and justice
Unite and make the impossible possible
Make peace happen
Make justice universal..
Make peace and justice
Integral to human-planetary identity.
A solemn sacred signature enshrined
In our species sentience for
Generations – eons upon eons.

I hasten to assure
People of color
Good people everywhere
I am not one of those
The haters
I am not one of those
Implementing social division – not
Participating in persecution - a cog
A thug in the reign of violence.

I remain true to nonviolence.
My creed is my goal.
My goal is biocracy.

I look at you
(face to face) in the
Beauty of your dignity.
I look at you
With the eyes of our shared humanity.
I stand beside you
In the struggle for equality
I stand beside you
Always (soul to soul)
In the struggle for equality.

Everyone born
Is born on the Earth.
Everyone born on the Earth.
Belongs TO the Earth.
We are Citizens of Creation.

*Human scum and shithole nations are terms
used by the American President to describe
immigrants from impoverished, war torn and
disaster stricken 3rd World Nations.

David Sparenberg 14 December 2025

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David Sparenberg is a humanitarian & eco-poet, international essayist and storyteller. He has published four new eBooks in 2025, including Troubadour& the Earth on Fire, available from OVI starting 18 Dec. International Migrant Day. David lives in Seattle, Washington in the Pacific Northwest of the UnitedStates but identifies as a world citizen, more comprehensively, a Citizen of Creation.