You Ain't Really Seein ME! A Poetic Interpretation (Art By Deveroux Reeves)

Into dark eyes you look

But you ain’t seeing really ME

You find in your thoughts what you made

Your theory of who I am

See my knotty hair

See a black man

But you ain’t really seeing me

A Man

You find in your thoughts

The nonsense

That any two men could be

Exactly the same

Can I just be a separate yet equal ME?

You see cold in my eyes

Because someone convinced you

That there’s no warmth therein

Fool. That’s what you are!

Your sins are white?

My sins are black?

Why then is it that your sins

Get a pardon of gray?

Where the hell is my pardon, I say?

Where is my freedom from being

Only what you see me as?

Huh?

When you ain’t even smelled this cigar

Before you were convinced that it stinks!

Don’t watch me!

Keep watchin yo TV!

You ain’t really seeing ME!

-Poetic Interpretation by Nadira Norjahan