THE IVORY HEARTED EBONY CHILD

You call me black

You call me white

Can Yin live without the Yang?

Can Day exist without the Night?

Did you look into my heart?

Did you see?

Is the colour of your soul

Different from me?

Are you more beautiful

Bleached so light?

Or am I the gorgeous one

Dark as the starlit night!

Do you have more

Because your colour got mislaid,

Have I got less

When I’m a saturated shade!

Are you the chosen one, mired

In the bogs of colour and race,

Or am I the one God discarded

For I carried your burdens with grace?

We are all human….one colour one race….

MS