Keep it dark



Africanicity
Black skin ethnicity
What's this color to me
A blessing or a deficiency

What's my hair to me
What's my texture to me
What's the deligency
Who am I to me

Racism is a disease
From the white supremacists
To them foreign antagonists
Where is the skin pharmacist

To transform me entirely
Not to a metaphor of the skin
But to a newly colored being
With no regards to skin

No black white whatsoever
To a life changing manoeuver
To finally be black over
But still keep the culture

To be past the mind
That only in skin I find
Something to feel my pride
What's the

What's the kindest word for lies
They don't like us for the skin we wear
I wait everyday to witness racist's demise
Where we don't live in a white world, in disguise

And skin doesn't name us
a world where black men don't end up in cuffs
Living life with a fuss

About this poem

The poem is about the stereotype that African people face, and it talks about how I feel about being a black African. It includes topic such as xenophobia as well, Africans hating Africans.

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Written on June 03, 2022

Submitted by kutigrace9 on June 29, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AABB BBCB CCCA BDXD EEEE AAAX CXCC CCC
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 836
Words 167
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3

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