Chidi, this is not poetry :
I am dreaming of a white christmas - a white christmas
white
like the eternally snow-capped mountain peaks of the Himalayas
white
as in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs -
a white christmas
white
like Wole Soyinka's first white hairs
white
like that super white dude Donald J Trump
pardoning the thanksgiving turkey that he slaughtered
in the White House
a White Christmas and not the opposite that comes to
the Black Power diaspora mind:
a Black Christmas - dark as before God said
let there be light and there was light
and He separated the light from the darkness:
Capetown, angel black, white as sin
Racism :
and now some of Jesus’s white supremacist folks are cackling
“We shall never worship your black Jesus !”