My face is beauty, <br />This I see, <br />My hair not clouded with someone else’s, <br />Natural as I choose to be, <br />The ancestor, <br />Hmm if they see me, <br />They’d be proud, <br />I’m not ashamed to say, <br />“I’M BLACK AND I’M PROUD! ” <br />The hope and the love of the brave, <br />My heart so free of burdens, <br />So light, <br />So very right, <br />Blood pumps though my soul, <br />I have a heart just like you, <br />Do not patronize me by my psyche, <br />It is the truth within, <br />The cage I’m in is very small, <br />Sometimes I fill like a made up doll, <br />On the other side of scales is not justice, <br />To me it is freedom and race, <br />Can I choose who I am to be? <br />America the home of the brave, <br />We shouldn’t live in a cage, <br />My faces lights up like the solar eclipse, <br />I will not be shackled by the past, <br />I am the narrator of my life, <br />The magister of my essence, <br />The one who breaks me, <br />Also the one who makes me, <br />The first one who believes in me, <br />The one who keeps pressing on, <br />The one, whose faith hasn’t wavered, <br />The one with the knowledge, <br />The young lady who wants to go to college, <br />All the people who told you can’t, <br />Drop them, <br />Who didn’t believe in you, <br />Drop them, <br />If they don’t support you, <br />Drop them, <br />Get rid of all the pain, <br />In the end, you realize it was you in the beginning.<br /><br />Qeeony Luv<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/my-face-is-black-but-my-heart-is-red/
