Bella Cruella

I accosted her with glee

Bearing gifts of smile

And every iteration of goodwill 

Under the Northern sun

I reached for promised embrace

Only to be staggered aback

By fearsome unforeseen smack 

Across disillusioned mien

I was ill-prepared for the foul stench

Of intolerance that now assail

My sweetly sensibilities

What shall soothe seared soul? 

Xenophobia disguised as patriotism

Would label me thief

Come to plunder and pillage

I swear it ain't so! 

Racism unabashedly assaults

Proudly rendering fools' rhetoric

That somehow my color

Means I'm lesser 

There is pain in her rejection

For my intractable truth is:

I'm human and unique and free

And America was supposed beautiful