In Lightened Skin
In lightening my skin, will that help me to fit in? I can hardly recognize myself, act as if I’m ashamed of my brown self. Colors more beautiful than the rainbow. From light to dark skin black,…
Brokenness
Shattered like glass, heart broken into pieces. Can someone help me out, need to find a way to beat this. Filled with pain and self-doubt, mouth open…no sound comes out! If someone bumps into MERCY let her…
Purple Mountains Majesty
“For purple mountains majesty”, why are you trying to destroy me? Does my skin really bring you that much fear, that you’d continue to take life that I hold dear? “O, beautiful for spacious skies”, why do…
Who Can I Run To?
Who can I run to when I come home to my apartment but can’t get in, my entry stopped once again, cuz of the color of my skin? A white woman standing at the front door is…
Someone Like Me
Someone like me…with honey chocolate skin, might leave my home and not come back again. Police don’t take time to assess the problem, they pull out their guns….start shooting, that’s how they solve em’. Civilians with mental…
Selective Amnesia
They said he sailed the ocean blue. For those of us WOKE, we know it’s not true! How can you discover a land already occupied, this won’t be the last time “they” lied. In North and South…
I Pledged Allegiance To The Flag: But What Did It Pledge To Me?
I, “pledged Allegiance to the flag, of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all”….. right? But what did the flag…