True Colours challenge

My True colours Challenge

At the age 10 I was told my true colour was not my own.

I had stayed in the sun to long that shade is not your own.

At the age 12 I sat by the window praying this dark flow would go.

I had endured so much loneliness from this shade alone.

No Birthday Parties from kids I know.

No invites , but family and friends of family that look just like me you know?

When I hit 18 I realize my beauty in my shade as they call it.

My true colour is so divine; Dark Brown The colour is Just Right it’s my own and I claim it everywhere I go.

Maybe that’s why by the time I was 25 a teacher tried to tell me lies.

Saying I should call myself black because that’s what I’m considered.

Is it? because a white man says so?

This goes back to the time I was 10 all over again.

I made a vow; never let no one tell me about my colour or what it should be.

“Melanin”? You question it?

But then wonder why there’s so much confusion there. “Hmmm”

This world were living in,

With the right education maybe we can see what true colours really means!