I AM NOT WHITE

I am not white… Not white, but tones of pinkof gentle shades of tawnywith constellations on my skinof greater and lesser magnitudesof brown. My eyes are blueor sometimes more like grey.It’s a mood thingor a product of surroundingsand ecologies. My blood is redas brightas anyone’s.  My hair has lived throughsun-touched goldand lightish, dullish brown,and through fads …