Brown Skin

Monica Salazar

You have caused controversy 
Caused a spark of remembrance
As to why light skin hates you, or loves to hate you, or loves 
you because they are not you...

You must be warm, like hot cocao on cold winter nights 
where hope seems lost to the wind
You must be ceremonial, like a feast for the hungry after days 
of fasting to the gods

You must be rich, like the vast lands that carry your color 
You must be gold, like the sun - heads bow in your brightest 
presence
You must glow, like a full moon- every eye stands in awe of 
you

Brown skin - you must be beautiful because every time you 
stand in happiness, all eyes cast their gaze and wonder-
why?
Because for some time, you have felt pain sink into your
bones
you have either been sexually heightened, harassed and
imprisoned or completely forgotten.

But you spark chaos into the comos-

reminding every star why they wish to be in the skin you 
radiate in. 

Reminding earth what you are made of soil & stardust.

Oasis & desert.

Flor y nopal.

Angel and warrior.

I love you, brown skin.

Deserving of all the love that was taken from you.

Originally on Instagram @mozieonover .