Out of the darkness she appeared <br />Black pearl eyes <br />Peeked out like a surprise <br />A curtain of shadows filled her space <br />A gossamer smile on a broken face <br />Though just a product of poverty <br />Her eyes told a different story <br />A desire for higher glory <br />Ebony skin of Mayan descent <br />Traces of history so opulent <br />Threatened by lighter blood <br />Leaving behind ashes and mud <br />A life filled with Icarusian dreams <br />She plunges into a nightmare of screams <br />No choice but to live in destitute <br />No one listens to a vapid dispute <br />If silence is the voice of the voiceless <br />It a tincture of irony, be it choice less <br />Torn dress and shoeless feet <br />A fractured frown <br />Was her daily crown <br />Hunger pangs an ominous grind <br />What garbage dumps would yield <br />Each treacherous step a mine field <br />The ambivalence of just being a youth <br />As she navigate the portals of the truth <br />She must dance with the devil <br />Try to survive at every level <br />The ebb and flow of life a constant itch <br />A shredded episode hanging by a stitch <br />A magnetism drew me to her <br />An omen of my own inequities <br />Dare I admit my own fragilities <br />Dare I step into the unknown <br />Where unrecognizable glances are thrown <br />Into a world of skin and bone <br />Unstable as the ripples of a skipping stone <br />Yet I was stuck in a quagmire <br />Strings of the heart afire <br />Pulling me, tugging me down <br />By the weight of this thorny crown <br />Could I be her Savior <br />Plunge into her world of misbehavior <br />Stay tuned for Part II<br /><br />Alfred Ramos<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/negra-black-pearl-part-i/
