My Melanin Sonnet
Dark skin is not a badge of shame
My African beauty makes me shine
Nubian beauty is a crown that I claim
And still I rise.
I am a Nubian princess
Royal in very way
Beauty is never restless
Count every beautiful thing in me or go away.
I am a black queen of beautiful me
My soul is worthy and my two-colored dark skin is royalty
People’s judgment of dark beauty are cruel and mean
Brown skin girls need people with the definition of loyalty.
I get big scars and bruises all over my dark skin
I play too hard and rough
My beauty is deep within
I am still beautiful and tough.
I am dripping melanin and honey
I’m black without apology
A melaninaire of dark skin money
The studies of Melanin are not mythology.
Beauty is always a Queen
And I will always gonna be me