Unapologetically Me

I believe that when you are born, your favorite color is the first color that you see when you open your eyes

Which is most mothers wrap there boys in blue and there girls in pink

When I was I younger I used to think that I was broken

Because my mother did as all new mothers do, she too, wrapped me in the color she was supposed too

But I don’t think the message came through

Because I hate the color pink

The first color that I saw was the color that illuminates the world below

My favorite color is yellow

As a child, bright yellow specks would reflect my dreams, like a movie on a screen

And those little lights would sparkle so bright

And that’s how I knew that I was doing the right thing

But being a yellow in a world with pinks and blues

Causes you to get shunned

Without ever knowing what you have done to deserve this

Why I have earned this

And those pale pinks soon turn into raging reds and those sky blues turn into tar blacks and those colors engulf and attack those little yellow lights until I have nothing left to fight for and it feels like it’s gonna be night forevermore

For years, I wandered in darkness until finally I saw the sun again

The star that brought me light

That brought me back to life

Allowed me to see the pinks and the blues

The purples, the oranges, the greens and the reds

All of the colors of the rainbow are swirling inside of my head

And those demons that left me for dead

Were dumbfounded when they saw that I held the power instead

The sun yields for no one

And neither will I

I have to power to give life or to end it

And all this time, I thought that I would have to give in to the darkness

But instead all I had to do is shine my light

To be my true self unapologetically

To be able to creatively think outside of the box

Without worry whether I fit in or not

Because I am yellow like the sun

And I intended to shine continuously