I am love personified
the product of a moment of passion
The passion led to a bond that has now lasted 20 years.
I am the product of two gene pools, one sperm and one egg.
I bond together multiple ethnicities,
multiple cultures,
multiple languages.

I speak in my own tongue,
A mix of all the wisdom that has been passed to me from my mother,
Light skinned with freckles and my father with his muddy complexion.
My red-boned great grandmother and my snowy white great grandfather
Remind me of an older Pocahontas and John Smith.

Produced a son that no one could label
he passed for what he could.
His life reminds me that:

I am America,
A melting pot of warriors and peacemakers,
Rebels and lawmakers,
Natives and immigrants.

The place where
Waters, from Barbados, Ireland, Bahamas, England,
Mingle with the blood shed of my ancestors who
Worshipped the land from which they were born.

The history of America is pumped
Through my heart and veins
The dark days of the silenced rape victims of any plantation,
And the days of evicting people from the land of their Mother.
To the days of promise, CHANGE, and hope.