I Love My HAIR
I am not my hair!
And yet in this world
It can define me,
But I love my hair and it's abilities
But I don't like that society tells me
What to do with it
Or who I am because of it.
I am not my hair!
It is transformative and beautiful,
But society tells me to change it
Based on what I'm doing
Or what I want to be perceived as,
But I am NOT my hair!
If I wear my hair in Afro puffs
It doesn't mean I'm a Black Panther
I am not my hair!
And if my hair is straight,
It doesn't mean I'm a Rhodes Scholar,
I am not my hair!
Or if my hair is braided,
It doesn't mean I speak any African languages,
I am not my hair!
I am me,
And I am beautiful
As is my hair,
But we are not
One in the same.
And as some of these things may be true,
It wasn't my hair that did it,
I am not my hair!
So I may not be my hair,
But it can empower me,
With its strength, beauty, and dynamism,
I LOVE MY HAIR!