Do you think this poem deserved to win?

the following poem won me first place at a poem contest.

do you think it deserved to win?

Steven Bonafide Rojas

Invisible Ones

We walked

We talked

We bought

We fought

We lived

We died

We are the ones

With accents in conversations

Who get passed by on every street

As something else

Urban jibaros

Questions of skin complexion

Light or dark

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We who are

In the middle of every discussion

Of race relations because we are dark light

Spanish English speaking tongues

Broken dialects to go with broken dreams

We who are

Fed images of false equal opportunities

And non-green carded citizenship

Capitalism and congressman

Put us all in the arms of big brother

The stranglehold of the IRS taxes

We who are

Cursed by machismo

Love salsa and meringue

Battled for self respect and our independence

Considered second-class citizens,

A prize of war of bloody Sundays

Radiation treatments

For I will tell you

Bombed by Vieques and bombed by Bushwick

Gentrified Harlem and justice rallies

Your existence we protested

And you fired your utensils of death

On women, children, and men

All dressed in white

Invisible

We who breath

The same polluted air

The same infectious water

Pray to the same gods

Sit by each other on the same train

Eat food in the same places

Listen to the same music

Attend the same schools

But are always in the middle

Trapped in the television of life

That閳ユ獨 black and white

Never believed in Technicolor dreams

Only in the color of green

Underpaid and over slaved

Sweatshops and chop shops

In a schizophrenic American dream

Invisible

We who fought

Over which island is better than which

On New York streets

Speaking colonized English

Instead of colonized Spanish

And fight over who has

The better food, better music,

Better ball players and better cars

Which are either American, Japanese, or German made

Never understood that we閳ユ獧e all from a history

That neglected us

Transformed us from savage Indians

To 21st century Pepsi pop stars

And never cared for our culture

Unless they can make a profit out of it

A media that bleaches our color

From our skin and believes

We all come with Eurocentric features with English tongues

We have afros and dreads

Straight hair, curly, kinky

Black, blonde, red hair

Thin and thick lipped

Brown eyes, blue, green

Hazel contacted eyes

Full spectrum of life

Rainbow閳ユ獨 beauty

Never understood

Our full potential

For our darkness and brightness

We are the invisible ones

We walked

We talked

We bought

We fought

We lived

We died

But all we wanted was

To be seen, heard, and respected

Because we bleed

Like everyone else does.

Do you think this poem deserved to win?

Put it to rap music, it might fly somewhere.

Do you think this poem deserved to win?

Thats been proven to be a fraud

Do you think this poem deserved to win?

Well if it was a contest of reading poetry and you read it well then yes. If it was a contest of writing poetry well then you plagiarized ( well actually just plain ripped off ) someone elses work.

its a pretty well put together work albeit really long.

Do you think this poem deserved to win?

i write and read poetry, i appreciate a good poem when i read it. yes it's good. but i must tell you it sounds a little racist. i agree with it, but what does it have to do with illegals?

Do you think this poem deserved to win?

It is a reall good good poem but the fact is illegal is breaking the law no matter how beautiful you make it sound.

Do you think this poem deserved to win?

I like it. It's a little long but it's a good poem.