Day Twenty-six

Today's words:

Prejudice

Palace

Blackboard

Torrent

Angel

Spy

Prejudice

Is not as simple as keeping some people out of the palace,

Or writing their names on a blackboard

And expelling them with a torrent

Of invective. I'm no angel

Here, but I may be a spy.

From here I spy

On all the ways prejudice

Takes an angel

From the palace

Of good, only to transform him in a torrent

Of lies written on a blackboard.

I say erase the blackboard.

Go out and find the spy

Who has been providing a torrent

Of misinformation, fueling the prejudice

That infests the palace.

I may not be an angel;

I do not have the wings of an angel.

But I know better than to believe what's written on the blackboard

Outside the palace.

They say I'm a spy,

But that's just their prejudice.

Soon I'll unleash a torrent

To cleanse them, like a torrent

Of love frees an angel

From prejudice.

And now I write on the blackboard

The true name of the spy

Who has infiltrated the palace.

Even though I live in the palace

I know I am not immune from the torrent

Of lies spread by the spy

Who, posing as an angel,

Uses the blackboard

To spread insidious prejudice.

Even in this palace an angel

Can't hold back the torrent alone. We must watch the blackboard

And be sure to spy for any sign of prejudice.