color me chocolate Poem

Written by Jolie Brownell

we colored colored.

skin marked as a marker.

body fixed as unfixable.

but still, color me chocolate.

they picked themselves as the picker,

they colored us colored.

they marked our skin as a marker.

they fixed our body as unfixable.

but still, color me chocolate.

white supremacy picked themselves as the picker,

so they colored us colored.

to do this, they marked our skin as a marker;

a marker of other, of deviant, of not them.

they fixed our body as unfixable,

unredeemable, uncivil.

but still, color me chocolate.

color me chocolate,

that deep dark smooth chocolate.

for what they choose to name my skin,

how they choose to treat my skin,

why they choose to hurt my skin,

reflects nothing upon the value,

softness, richness, and

excitement of my skin.