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Recommend this profile to your Facebook friends. personal messageFinding Home This poem is for
the fullness of your lips
the wideness of your nose
the kink of your hair
the brown in your eyes
and the black of your skin
I’m in my room
my little security blanket
tucked in a corner of the house
grooving to D’Angelo’s
Brown Sugar
India Arie’s
Brown Skin
Angie Stone’s
Black Brotha
when I hear my name shouted above the music
I run downstairs
leaving my cloud
My mom is standing at the bottom of the stairs
holding the phone
I grab it and turn on my heel
I hear my mom murmur
“I hope it’s not another dark boy”
I rush back to envelop myself in my own world
The deep bass voice makes my nerves tingle
and for a minute laying on my bed
the yellow in my skin is blackwashed away
My waves double and triple over themselves
until an afro of ringlets hugs my scalp
This voice
takes me back to my ancestors
When my eyes fell on him
in his skin I found the essence of Africa
I wanted to kiss and breathe in the land and nature
of a love
a mother
I never knew
His body was my temple
It was the Bible for an African-American female
who was taught to lighten up the family tree
or at least keep it the same color
Listening to the jeers of her family
about how her children would be pickaninies
because she preferred dark over light
I was searching for a past
to learn to accept one I was taught to ignore
What city girl
needs forty acres and a mule?
Checking that box marked Black
was a formality in my family
as my mom told me I was a griffe
I was better than Black People
But if I wasn’t black
and I’m not allowed to be Native American
What am I?
My family taunted my little brother
when he got the notion his race is human
My little brother didn’t understand
this world can’t accept you for who you are
because they are focused on what you are
When you’re trying to decide who you’re going to be
By: R. Rainbow R. |
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