I'm An Artist Sensitive Bout My Ish Smile
52Skin Is Only Skin
I'm an Artist sensitive
about my ish
Makin me feel displaced
with what you dish
I won't resort to the same thing
cause it's petty
Think about what you said
How mad I get cause you
tap into my denial
My self-imposed identity
When I should be in
Skin is only skin
Make me feel I'm not like you
Make me feel bad but I'm
not stewing
I'll keep verbally suing
Until I like who I am and that
would be who
Explicit slurs and call people names
like that's gonna be
the cure for why I'm insane
about what brews
Entrenched within
Skin is only skin
Sometimes I blend
Unless I offend
then my cover is blown
I'll go on and not care
but these are the people I want
to have an affair...a family affair
I won't see their side of it
I fail to see their side of it
I only see their sins
Nobody can see mines
Conduct my Christian self
God will cover me
Why should they be mad if spoken for
When I think I will
I think I will
I think I will
I think I...will
Skin is only skin
I'm like a duet and ride the fence
I can appeal to every audience
Ain't no boss
I get stopped for driving
whatever choice I make in life
I'm still considered hood
Look at the inside story
of the ghetto glory
Eyebrows shouldn't raise
cause I's favors milk
inside chocolate wafers
This ain't about their feelings this...
Is about me and how they sin
Ivory and ebony is the beginning
I should fit in
I an artist not that sensitive
about my ish
Skin... only skin
Only skin
Only.... skin
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Comments
I'm loving it. Great poem, again NightFlower. You are right, 'Skin is only Skin', but still considered hood. Indepth look at subtleties.
Thanks wehzo...there is so much more than meets the eye...so much
more than skin.
Actually I try hard to stay from being political...I don't think
I'm the least bit pc but I love to get your interpretations...sophisticated
lady that u is~smile.
This poem resonates with incredible soul! Somehow, I can imagine this poem set to music!
I have a few friends that have put a great many of my
peices to music but not this one yet although I have it
on a track...I'll put out there and see if one of them will
bit~smile. Thank you for the suggestion AG.
Hmmm and just a little question...Do you know anyone by the nic of "Night-Flyer"?
Actually Aura Gem I've not heard of anyone hear by the
of Night-Flyer...of course very close to my name "NightFlower"
hmmm interesting.
Curioser and curioser - just that this nic is in a poetry website I am in and has a style similar to yours. Loves jazz too. Guess it was just a co-incidence! I honestly thought it was you.











Iưunn says:
2 years ago
I love it when you tap the political and of course everything personal IS also political. Moving~