It's starting to seem as if I am white enough to survive but too black to be pleasing to the eye
A wild animal from first glance, but a caged bird by my vernacular
Thrown a bone because I can speak, resented because I am not weak
Accepted due to how I dress, yet still not worthy of a life free of stress
I don't call what I am alive because all I do is survive
Seems that being alive will only begin when I can hide my melanin,
My melanin seems to be a deadly narcotic that the supremacist DEA, also known as the KKK
Wants to eradicate from this world.
Wants to cleanse from their eyes, to purge rather than let hide, to slaughter not just let die
But what can I do, I'm proud of brown skin,
I'm black and I'm proud, why is that such a sin?