My True Family

Do you wonder what's wrong with me?
It's YoU!
I love you but everything you do to me makes me hate you.
You're my family.
I should love you and you should love me too,
But it feels like you don't
And because of who I am, who I am with, who my friends are, and what I stand for
It seems like you won't.
It seems like you don't love me anymore.
Melanin- scientific fact of skin, hair, and nail pigmentation to protect us from the UV rays of the sun.
Race- sociological term made up for all those who want to be distinguished as a different species.
As if human is white and you're the only one.
As if blacks aren't human
As if whites rule the world
As if that's the way it's supposed to be.
You don't know how much you mean to me.
You don't understand how much you meant to me.
You are supposed to provide me with unconditional love and support
You are supposed to be my family
Instead you mock and continue with rapport
Because I like the arts, and to have spirit, and to learn about culture.
I like tye-dye bandanas and candles and incense
And I love my friends for who they are.
It's not what it looks like
It's not what they look like
It's not what other people see
It's not what other people think
But it is!!!
It's a black man holding your daughter's hand
Walking down the streets of critical society
Judging you, judging me
Because some of my friends are black
But some of them are white and yellow.
No...Puerto Rican and Dominican
Peruvian and Chinese
Haitian and African
or maybe African American
or Irish, Italian, German and Swiss
No color defines you
So stop looking at what you want to
And see me and my friends and who we are for our truth!
"It's not about black or white cuz we're human"
So stop criticizing and abusing
I am going to continue to be me
And if you don't like me it's okay
"Well if people don't like me, It's OK!"
"Well if people don't like me, It's OK!"
I'm going to be me anyway
If you don't like me, it is your loss of me
I feel I can't don anything to chance your mind
So I will keep being who you taught me to be
A loving, accepting, open-minded, colorblind
and hopefully one day you will be lucky like me
To find true comanions and always feel free
To express yourself like I do
And then we can talk about
How much I really love you
For being My True Family