Subtle Black Beauty

Starring at the reflection

Trying to find the beauty

What beauty? Among the kinky curls & oversaturated skin

Within the dark lifeless pupils

Between the protruding curves

Desperately calling for attention

That subtle black beauty

Is what I long to find

The black beauty society tore away from me, the moment I began to breathe

So every night, through my camera roll I scroll

Searching

Longing, pathetically for a feeling

That should exist within me but is missing

Forlorn, I end my quest

Surrendering my body to sleep

Dreaming about a world

Where my subtle black beauty can exist

July 17th, 2020