Photo credit: Aashish R. Gautam
I am both Dark & Beautiful
“because we are more than the color of our skin”
By Erin Thomas
We are more than the shades that
color pallets run out of
The dusky wheat ready for harvest
The color and aroma of tea
The hew of mahogany and teak
Powdered sandalwood
The sands of Arabia that sweep across the land
The coffee beans and wheat grains –
that flows from the farmer’s hands
We are nature in its contrast and ray
We are Earth’s shade in its grace
like olive clives set across lands
it is time we embrace every skin and shade.