Oh Mama Why Are We So White ..

Oh Mama Why Are We So White .., a photo by firoze shakir photographerno1 on Flickr.

why do they laugh
jeer throw coins
at us out of fright
oh mama take me
away from here
i hate this sunlight
i love my dreams
i love the pillow
i love the night
i hate everything
bright ..it hurts
my eyesight ..

this picture
never left me
cursing my
camera
my wingless
poetic flight
an insult
to injury
buying
creams
that make
your dusky
skin fair
lovely
alright
white here
is not
beautiful
but painful
no respite
stigma
taboo
outright
albinism
the other
side of
midnight