Dear Black Girl

Dear Black girl,

How dare you allow someone else with a race of another to define your color. 

How dare you criticize your candy carmel, light bright, chocolate made, skin

Which ever category yours falls in.

For they do not know the different positions your hue has put you in.

The looks, the stares, the back lash and suspicions.

Only you can truly know about the beauty that lies within.

To honor the spread of love, I must ask you to remember where our ancestors have been.

Their fight should not go in vain and neither shall our pain. 

We use it to prosper and thrive because we were never meant to have shame.

The point is not to dwell, but we'll never let it slide.

Your skin soaks the suns rays and your hair defies gravity. 

None of the hate matters when you see beauty in your eyes.

Sincerenly, 

A fellow black girl.