Identifying Beauty

I want to embody beauty through religion When the world looks at me with criticisms, profiling and ignorance My light will shine and the world will have to see my colors from my cloth kept close around me shielding the bareness of mans temptation My body, my hair a mystery surpassing all riddles The beauty, I hide is long forgotten Un-cherished, de-purified, anti-modest I wear not what lay bear my skin For an invitation for both men and women to sin A protection of the merciless eyes and attention By those who fear no reprimand for satisfied desires So do not call me oppressed, forced or abused Because it is the beauty of religion I chose The freedom of religion you say is for all But when my sisters express their right This "Land of the free" demand we "Take that thing off" "That thing" that should be constitutionally protected Is America's only exception of what is accepted So once again, hear me right I chose my faith with no forced might Cause I am the beauty of what you forgot I am religion, the real beauty and that's what I was taught