I am not black.
Even if I swallowed the rainbow...
I would still be brown.
I am the color of cinnamon,
and the color of rain
seeped into the ground below your church.
Your church
that accepts "my kind" in the pews
but not in the home.
I am the color of your home beneath the paint and bricks.
Knots, and nails, and nicks
scar brown wood
just as slurrs, and stares, and sneers
scar brown hearts.
And I am the color you would be...
if you swallowed God's promise.
So pull your top lip up into a sneer.
Call me black.
It just gives me an excuse to write poems on
cinnamon and hypocracy.
Written in a Barnes and Noble. Seriously you should GO.
God Bless:)