What do you see in her and what <br />Do you want -do you yearn for a <br />White girl –the rich ones that mama <br />Use to work for –the poor ones that <br />Shape up or the two in the park <br />On the bench -embraced <br />What is embedded in a black man’s <br />Eye that he should see –the panoply <br />Of colors of dresses they all wear <br />Against absence or take of coloring <br />Skins deep light and fair is there this <br />Woman hidden in the culture <br />Or is this one embedded in the eye <br />And how come mama was just as <br />Fair and blue eyed and swore to me <br />She believed herself to be just as black <br />As I -as Daddy who left to serve to die. <br />What do you see in her and what <br />Do you want –mama said the woman <br />Judged whether she is plebeian <br />or natural in cultured belief and in <br />Swearing -beholds the essence of me <br />That we are both colored fair inside <br />And mother of my true father’s eye. <br /> <br /> <br />Lee Mack copyright 2009. ISBN # 0615318347. Do not reproduce without permission.<br /><br />Lee B. Mack<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/what-do-you-see-in-her-original-11-25-2009/
