So many shades of blood
Black blood
Brown blood
Yellow blood
White blood
Ebony, chocolate
coffee, chestnut blood
Pasty, pale, sallow
Roses and cream blood
On the streets
In the fields
They all stain the same
Blood
Shed in anger
Shed in fear
Shed in conquest
and defeat blood
And once shed in love
blood
It’s all the same
When will we learn.