To A White Girl

 I love you
Because you’re white.
Your whiteness
Is a silky thread
Snaking through my thoughts
In red hot patterns
Of lust and desire.

I hate you
Because you’re white.
Your white flesh
Is nightmare food.
You’re my Moby Dick,
white witch.
Loving you thus
And hating you so,
My heart is torn in two.

   ~ Eldridge Cleaver