What makes me unique
A poem about what makes me...me

Staring in the mirror yet again trying to find out what makes me unique.
But I can’t tell you something that was never
disclosed to me
but let me
try.
As the bathroom light reflects upon
my dark chocolate skin
Now I finally can see
what it is
that makes me
unique from
within.
Is it the fact that I’m a twin ?
Or that
my skin is sun kissed that caused me to
be dark skinned?
In which scientists call it
Melanin?
Or is it my big round lips?
Something when you look at me
you can’t
miss?
Or maybe it’s my unusual shaped nose.
In result that cause’s me to smell
my momma’s cookin
before I walk through
the door?
Or it could be my big brown eyes.
That has a glare of content
when I arise.
What makes me unique?... I can’t tell
You something that was never
disclosed to me
but let me continue
to try.
But what if it’s my nappy hair .
Because everywhere I go those
Who see me point
and stare.
Or is it my amazingly strong voice.
That when I speak my voice sounds
similar to a Lions
Roar
OR
It could be when people talk, I listen
rather than ignore.
OR
Is it the fact that I make people
feel comfortable around me.
So comfortable that grown adults
feel at ease to cry
around me.
.
Or maybe it’s the fact that in 2006
I once almost died.
Because I ,I wasn’t
living right.
So truly I don’t know what makes me
unique because those things
were never
disclosed me.


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