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Dorise Dixon
USA

I Am Colorless

Faith love devotion escapes me
Who have I been devoted to?
Who have I loved who loves me?
What have I been faithful too?
Springs com forth but nothing capture me
My values where are their origins
Powerful inspiring thoughts lost in transition
My thoughts only preserved in my mind
Ethnicity handed down to me not by choice
Fables inspire my thoughts I act
Fantasy overpower reality no sense at all
Throughout ages lies adopted as truth
Where are the promises of truth past comments
Where is the preservation of life fulfillment?
When will the fable become fact?
When will fantasy become non-fiction?
The origins of my land unpolluted with fabrication
When will my race my color not matter anymore
When will America see me as colorless?
Not a race
I’m a person
I’m a woman
Not a color
I’m colorless
I’m human
Devoted to springs of life
Life springs in me colorless
Capture my spirit take me whole
Then you will see who I am
Where is faith love devotion?
Not in my color
Not in my race
I’m colorless
Capture my faith
My love
My devotion
Then you will capture me

Spiritual Woman

Nurture, sensual ferocious that’s me
Though I died now I live reborn
Tested and tried yet not denied
Some trails I passed many I failed
A gift was given me in spite of my trails
Newness given past old
Isolation takes its course
Many others walking the same path
Only a few gracious souls last
My life not contained by the rules of society
Desires followed whole hearted speak of my forward
smiles
Blessed by God cursed by the world
Loneliness and misunderstood has been my path
Such a freedom not many will experience
Obedience and adherence my temperatures
I am a real spiritual woman now realized
Sounds, smells and my sight overwhelmed
Right through the soul of human
Seeing in the spirit formless details
Independence, fieriness, total confidence mine
Human reflexes heightened by spirituality
Still me but spirit hid in fleshly garments
Ferociously spiritual that’s me I cannot deny
Freedom from imprisoned cage calls for present joy
Accepting my spirituality liberates me
This awareness powerful totally exhilarating
Now I can be me
When he saved me from the sea
He saved my future
Now the moon and stars shine my night
A spiritual woman
Ferocious that’s me
Graduated from sweet milk
To ferocious spirituality
That’s what happened to me
When his spirit hand touched me
So that’s what I am
Ferociously spiritual
That’s me