I imagined my long awaited dreams coming true, many beautiful stories I could share and exciting adventures I would experience. Oh yes, these things are happening to me everyday, some so sweet, and yet among all of that, I have experienced a strange feeling of separation, maybe disgust?
A color that you can fill your coloring-in-book with.
I am not white,
I am not black,
I am South African.
I have no race, I have no desire to be anything more than what I am.
I am colored in with my nations cultures. Individually, wrapped, filled
I have been colored in
And in return, embraced within and
Opened up like a flower.
Don't worry your mindless thoughts
For you know not any better,
I cannot even speak on your behalf and say
One day you will understand.
For I know
As many whom have traveled from home know
No one truly knows the suprise that rest in my beautiful land.
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