Confidence In My Color
I am black and I will succeed;
I will reach the top and I'll win;
I will go to college with tears of joy in my eyes and receive my degree;
Only I will know what I achieved;
Only I will know why tears were falling;
I will remember the days when I lost faith in myself and the color of my skin;
The days when my mind was telling me I couldn't do it but I knew I could;
Confidence;
Where was confidence at the time that I needed it;
I will remember the days when I grieved over letting my skin color die;
My rich dark skin color;
The color people sigh when they see;
If only I knew;
If only I knew how much quality this skin had;
I only had one reason for the tears of joy dropping from my eyes down to my cheeks;
It was because I was proud to be black;
I am proud to have black roots because that’s what makes me who I am;
I am a proud dark-skinned girl, and nothing can ever change that;