Whiting Out the Shame
I am privileged with the right to say my name
For the fame
Privileged with the shame of knowing they
Will always think less of me
Because I’m the one who has everything
The one with words to sing
A melody that will only bring
My perfect life to the light
Because my struggles don’t matter
And my heart, it flows faster than it beats
My dreams aren’t as ambitious
And my scene,
Not as vicious as the ones
Who are different from me
You’re no different from me
Dig deep
You’ll see that we have the same dreams
The same time to stop and breathe in
The world around us
Yes, my skin is white on the outside
Bringing stereotypes to my lifestyle
But do you know the color of the words I have to hide?
The ones I put aside
Because I’m too free to lead
A life that doesn’t succeed
I have too much to throw it all away
I am too privileged to say
That I face the way that you look at me
Like it’s my fault those people see
Someone different
You see, you and me
We are no different
We are no different
Only the world says we are
The ones who take strength and turn it to scars
Let’s face the facts
Of who I am
Let’s cram my life into that cookie cutter scam
Because the color of my skin says “supremacy”
Like I’m some fool with a big dream
To rule you out of the world forever
Like I have some dream to be
The queen
So take a step back and realize
That the whole world has brought you the lies
That I am a woman with everything in my hands
Here I stand
Here I land
In an island, isolated
Because that’s where I’ve been put, locked away
Left to run astray
Into the best of the world and the land of the free
But this land doesn’t house the brave,
It saves the afraid.
The color of my skin says I’m better
Somehow they let her become stronger than the rest
Gave her the test
But I am not who I seem
I do not settle with the gleam of my porcelain colored lense that pretends
To show you who I am, and
Show what message I send
So take a step back
And look on more time
To the words you have said about
“My kind”
You don’t really know me
You don’t really know me.