I Am Not My Complexion (poem) by April Sims on AuthorsDen

I Am Not My Complexion
by April Sims → (All Poetry by April Sims)
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I was listening to the Tom Joyner show and Huggie Lowdown called Tom Joyner light brown. I inhaled his words and exhaled them through the following words. You will soon read that it took me at record speed through my childhood and back to the present for a second then off to the future. A future that can be altered!?!
I Am Not My Complexion by April Sims Why does it matter the lightness of my complexion? Why does it seem to give your brain an erection and Makes your eyes stand at attention? And call me names like yellow, redbone, honey beige, light brown Oh, and my favorite light, bright damn near white Well, stand down soldier Because I am giving you orders To judge me by my contents and my character That is beneath my light skin It should not matter how much cream Flows through my bloodstream Because we are all the same because "they" (Whoever they are) Say one drop commences the colored chart We must learn to love one another And embrace one another Or pretty soon we will be extinct and "they" Will say mission accomplished I guess I am naive, because I was raised in a big melting pot where all the races, creeds, colors, etc. made up one big stew. I have come to peek from behind my rose colored glasses and see things for what they are. Things that are today but with acknowledgement can be changed for a better future.

Reviewed by Denise Edwards

Reviewed on September 26, 2008

Bravo, April! I am colorblind, too. I love all colors God put in the world. Character is what defines a person, not color. And don't we all have the same color of life in our bloodstreams? Red? Great awareness write, April.

Reviewed by Rodney Bohen

Reviewed on August 15, 2008

Well done.
Important piece.
Thank you.

Rodney

Reviewed by Ken Chartrand

Reviewed on July 24, 2008

Hello April, I read your poem,"I Am Not My Complexion". I found it so true to the way some people act. As I am a Metis person I have treated ,at times, like a an alien creature just because of the color of my skin. Fortunatly my Ma told me; when I was a child, to 'ignore the ignorant'. Keep up the good work. Please feel free to visit my site here in the"Den"

Reviewed by Art Hernandez

Reviewed on December 11, 2007

I have had this thought within my mind rolling around trying to escape, it just so happens that today you have ...or rather I have...found the very things I was wondering about. Funny how you go through life and fifty or so yrs later....not that we are old...just wiser...we find ourselves placing thought and reflecting upon the outer layer of our character.

Maybe within the future generations this thought can be dilluted enough to where light brown is the only reality.

nice work, April...

Art Sun...

Reviewed by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado

Reviewed on September 28, 2007

You are not your complexion; you are a PERSON first, and that should be the ONLY thing that matters, not how "dark" or "light" you are! Be proud of yourself, honey; I am! God bless you!

(((HUGS))) and much love, your friend in Tx., Karen Lynn. :)

Reviewed by Jeanette Cooper

Reviewed on September 25, 2007

We're all from the same pot--just planted with different seed. I had similar feelings as you wrote in your poem and my first book, Wall of Color, expressed my thoughts and feelings.

Reviewed by April Sims

I agree with you 1000% Karla.

Reviewed by Karla Dorman, The StormSpinner

April,

Skin color doesn't matter: it's the person within. 'Nuff said. :)

A powerful call to end the prejudices written to those who don't know any better; well done!

(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.