Stealing While White

I'm trying to hide from the camera's eye,

My heart beats - one, two -

Do I steal? do I buy?

Casually taking a sip of fresh water

I shove in my bag freshly stolen eyeliner,

self-stolen dignity worth one dollar.

But my white color and a pretty face

are my alibi - I was born to be safe 

I look into white people's faces

Stolen labor and freedom - worth our successes.

I steal an eyeliner and another

impoverished Black woman loses

a dollar. "Black Lives do Matter," -

I try to keep my inner voice down,

I just bought an $81 worth suite so I can

work for an anti-police

brutality organization, run

by a white man