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collection of the poems I've written :)
some of these poems are in freestyle or measured and rhymed.
most of my poems are s...
Just some fore words before you start reading the poem.
This poem is based on a mindset from where I came from (the East; will not specify the country, privacy, but if you know, that's okay.) There's nothing triggering here though but there's a lot of insecurity and colorism here. What triggered me to write this poem is my own experience and things being done to some kpop stars. Their pictures would be filtered so they'd look whiter. It sucks because they're already pretty/handsome even without the filter.
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ownart (mxmrrst is my name without the vowels.)
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But I have brown skin
For so long I've been told
That having white skin would make me prettier
That I should keep out of the sun
Because it might give me a tan
And I'd have brown skin and be ugly again
.
My ancestors were called
Little brown Americans
It's twenty first century
We're still stuck glorifying the West
And looking down at our own culture
Because the West seems cooler than ours
.
And I have brown skin
They tell me to put this lotion
They tell me to scrub with this soap
They tell me to take in this pill
They tell me to have whiter skin
So I can be prettier to their eyes
.
18th century England's beauty standard
Was white skin meant affluence
That you weren't a farmer or a worker
And had people to do the dirty work for you
And could own and buy slaves
The same thinking could still be observed in the East
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But I have brown skin
And I wanted to be pretty
I thought I'd have friends that way
I thought I won't have to be lonely anymore
And I did what they told me to
But I'm still lonely and now, feel ashamed
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Japan, Korea, China, India
And the rest of the East
Still think that white skin is prettier
Brown skin is seen as dirty and poor
Everyone wants to have white skin
White skin still means rich and beautiful
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But I've regained my skin color
For so long I've felt ugly for being brown
While others my age would go crazy over having white skin
