The Skin I'm In

I am a woman who was born in a brown skin that God decided to put me in

A skin that most people hate but God saw it's beauty and decided to create.

People who try to define you and don't want to know who you are because they can't get past your skin and see the real person from within

I was born with brown skin big brown eyes big brown hair that gets puffy all the way up to the sky Does that make me less beautiful. Does that make me less intelligent? Am I unworthy to be in your presence just because I'm not a shade lighter?

I will not let the world define me by the color of my skin or if my hair has a tighter curl or if my body is thicker than the average girl God has me part of His grand design, I will not be defined by the world's web of lies.

I am brown I am beautiful I am black, and I am proud I will not be put down because of societies ways of design.

They may speak evil against me but God speaks life into me God does not look at the shades of the colors He made He looks into our hearts to see if their the right shades.

Stop looking at me as the enemy because of the color of my skin and start seeing me as person instead of the shell I'm in

We are all created in the image of God why must we continue this hate for each other when God called us to love one another.

If you still can't see me or see my soul in the way I speak I pray God changes your heart and shadows of darkness depart

I am a woman created in the image of God I will not be ashamed in the skin I'm in but will embrace the woman deep within