One cannot be short <br />And tall both at once <br />You're either rich or poor <br />The in-between is boring <br /> <br />Mullato does not claim birth <br />At the bellows and heat <br />Rightfully maybe on the grass <br />A hoe perhaps, not likely the furnace <br /> <br />Gray, is this the colour of metal <br />That has been kilned? <br />But the brunt of heat <br />Makes charcoal deeply swarthy <br /> <br />Or else who can say <br />That the sun of the African jungle <br />Is not in whole or in part responsible <br />For our black, black faces.<br /><br />samuel nze<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/mullato-or-black/
