Unapologetic
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I’m sorry I’m not who I was
A year ago when I told you
That I didn’t find
Myself to be beautiful
When I was weak
And fragile
Weighed down
And broken by unreached social standards
That my body just didn’t fit
That my brown skin
Carved with screams of “Go back to Africa”
Wasn’t light enough for you to see that
Some scars never really heal
I apologize that my hair was
Never straight enough
To remain invisible
Among a crowd of individuals who saw
Me as the exception to some unspoken
code of conduct
that my lips even dared to
spread across my face
for anything other than a frown
my sincerest apologies
if I offended you
with the way my hips swayed
to beat of their own drum
that my voice was heard
for anything other than
when I was spoken to
that those cruel words
didn’t fall on deaf ears
that my eyes couldn’t fight
the tears that were past due
to fall
I’m sorry that I apologized
For everything
yet nothing at all.