Kayona+Ward

Kayona's Poetic Page

I AM

**__JUDGED __** because of the way I look, dress, The color of my skin Describes me as an African American That has set her future to succeed in  planned to go to a four year college but not that’s just something to bypass Important to them we people are viewed if we come from **MONEY **or not, Minority or white We are **__children of God __** so that makes us equal <span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">We just **__<span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">do not share __**<span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> the same race or ethnicity <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">I hope a day like that will come <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">Yes I am an African American <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">Should that matter…? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">View myself as, <span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">A young lady with high <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">expectations, <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Athletic <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">, <span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">smart, <span style="color: #943634; font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">funny <span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">, <span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">kind hearted <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">No that’s just something to bypass

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">Growing up  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">Every person but dark-skinned people <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">Were in   <span style="color: #ff0066; font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Girls <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">/Boys <span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> flocked to them <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">The nice long brown curly hair <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">Sparkling eyes <span style="color: #76923c; font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Million dollar <span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> smile J   <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">Wished to be liked that way… <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">Too **DARK** <span style="color: #5f497a; display: block; font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">“Hush boo its ok, you’re beautiful in my eyes inside n out” <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">Thanks daddy

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">Today I am happy to be what I am  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">African American <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">Dark skin <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">However you may call it   <span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s my ethnicity I can’t <span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">change <span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> it and do not want too <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">This is who I am   <span style="color: #31849b; font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">**__ME__** <span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">!

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Bodoni MT Black','serif'; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">Am I Degenerate…? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">Label me a **degenerate** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">Because I am black <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">Mark me as **feeble-minded** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">Because my pedigree is wrong <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">If my **brother** was a **criminal** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">That makes me incorrigible <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">Commit me to the **asylum** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">Repress me in society **<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Judge me before you know me ** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">Ostracize my kind from your society <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">Tell us **were imbeciles** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">Try to coercive me  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">That **I am an** **imbecile** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">My skin isn’t white <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">My father isn’t **rich** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">So I’m not the best of the best don’t let **me** reproduce <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">I am an honor roll student <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">An **assume athlete** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">Got a good head on my shoulders **<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Working hard for mines ** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">College in the fall <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">If I’m not **the best of the best** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">Then tell me…who is? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">I’ve proven your pseudo science **FALSE** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">Still I’m adverse **<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Truthfully ** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">However, the only thing bad for society <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">Is **YOU!!!** =  My Half-Caste Daughter   =