Entity

One thing I hate that people like to say is,
I'm colorblind &  I don't see race

so as my analytical gears start to turn,
I wonder what do you see when you look in my face

I'm not a mirrored image of yourself looking at you
and I'm almost certain you couldn't  last half a mile in my shoes

if you don't see race, then what do you see
a mythological fantasy of how we wish life could be?

do you believe that we are living in this world equally?
and that you can identify with my plight through empathy?

are we one in the same, only distinguished by a pigment and name?
do the milestones of our histories read the same?

If you don't see color then what do you see?
because everything about our lives differs so drastically.

the things that come easy for you
are equivalent to my World War3

but as I speak and say these words
I know that you don't understand me!

I find it hard to believe that you're blind to the pigment in my skin
cause if you don't see color

then you don't see me... as a human entity.