Who Am I?

Who am I?

I am black.

I am woman.

I am educated.

I am beautiful.

Who am I?

 

Who am I?

I am the blackness that felt your fury.

I am the female that is not worthy.

I am the class you put bellow humanity.

I am the pigment you deem dirty.

Who am I?

 

Who am I?

I am the strength of bravery.

I am the future for equality.

I am the intelligence bred from the education I sought.

I am the queen to the temple I bought.

Who am I?

 

Who am I?

I am the blank shadow you whipped.

I am the body you claimed.

I am the book left unlettered.  

I am the body you raped.

Who am I?

 

Who am I?

I am the color of change.

I am the one destined for equal exchange.

I am the insight we require.

I am the vision to inspire.

Who am I?

 

Who am I?

I am the soul you slaughtered.

I am the innocence you captured.

I am the brain left rotted.

I am face no longer spotted.

Who am I?

 

Who am I?

I am melanin.

I am a goddess.

I am astute.

I am prepossessing.

Who am I?

 

Who am I?

I am the change in a supremacist society.

 

 

This poem is about: 
Me
My community
My country

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