The Complexion Chronicles: “Aja”

<![CDATA[<p style="text-align:auto"></p><figure><img src="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/84c03e_031043740034441fbda09282f16e7403~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1265,h_1600,al_c,q_80/file.png" width="1265" height="1600" title="Image"></figure><p style="text-align:center">4TH FINGERSTUDIOS</p><p style="text-align:auto"></p><p style="text-align:auto">To the root</p><p style="text-align:auto">The drip of the fruit</p><p style="text-align:auto">How does the burning cream flow more than the water?</p><p style="text-align:auto"></p><p style="text-align:auto">The burning and yearning it causes our sisters</p><p style="text-align:auto">To not look like our sisters</p><p style="text-align:auto">As if other cultures did not look down on us already</p><p style="text-align:auto">Like we all live in huts</p><p style="text-align:auto">And those who do are starving</p><p style="text-align:auto">Fuel the stigma that we still are hungry</p><p style="text-align:auto"></p><p style="text-align:auto">While they continue to take our riches</p><p style="text-align:auto">The beauty of our skin continues to the west</p><p style="text-align:auto">However, the west identifies with just the skin</p><p style="text-align:auto">And the kidnapping over our ancestors</p><p style="text-align:auto">But never us</p><p style="text-align:auto"></p><p style="text-align:auto">They will never identify with us</p><p style="text-align:auto">A Kente does not make you one with the “Motherland”</p><p style="text-align:auto">You are not the enemy as we are not entertainment</p><p style="text-align:auto">Or the inferior</p><p style="text-align:auto">Or even superior</p><p style="text-align:auto"></p><p style="text-align:auto">Wanting to touch where you came from is welcomed</p><p style="text-align:auto">Just come with respect and a guide</p><p style="text-align:auto">The beauty of us is stronger than what they say about both of us</p><p style="text-align:auto">Bind our love</p><p style="text-align:auto">Bind our pain</p><p style="text-align:auto">We long for each other’s land to stay</p><p style="text-align:auto"></p><p style="text-align:auto">But we stay in our place out of fear of each other’s rejection</p><p style="text-align:auto">We bleed the same blood</p><p style="text-align:auto">Out of the same skin</p><p style="text-align:auto">Under the same sun</p><p style="text-align:auto"></p><p style="text-align:auto">By the same God</p><p style="text-align:auto">I will not reject my sisters</p><p style="text-align:auto">Of other misters</p><p style="text-align:auto">But I will not replace my own who can’t see</p><p style="text-align:auto">The beauty of the same skin as I</p>]]>