My Color, My Problem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFG HIJHK LMHCCN OPHCLQ IRCSHC TUCVWHCX| Lucky I didn't overturn | A |
| This path has been potholed | B |
| I just made it with no broken bones | C |
| My being has turned to stone | D |
| Putting my body and soul at war | E |
| I have been walking this road | F |
| It's been winding | G |
| - | |
| I have run this mile over and over | H |
| I have yet to make it to the podium | I |
| I keep trying never giving up | J |
| The war inside me gets nastier | H |
| I just want out don't know how | K |
| - | |
| I wake up every morning hopeful | L |
| Wash up without fail the clean start to a new day | M |
| The mirror shows me blacker and darker | H |
| And so day in day out my life darkens | C |
| That light I desperately need so hard to see | C |
| Because everyone loves to blow it out | N |
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| It's this blazing heat inside my head | O |
| It bothers me all the time | P |
| Could it be the star I wonder | H |
| I keep holding back I dare not open that black box | C |
| For momma told me black is evil | L |
| So goes the fallacy keeping me four hundred years down | Q |
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| I want to be free oh Lord I crave some freedom | I |
| Yes for my freedom I am ready to fight | R |
| I dream of bloodless battlegrounds | C |
| Of black angels in white garb | S |
| Blessing this never ending river | H |
| Of love so flawless | C |
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| I know oh great Lord | T |
| I know you will help me break | U |
| These chains that imprison me | C |
| In self destruction and belief | V |
| That my failure lies within the dark of my skin | W |
| Let the beauty of your creation shine over | H |
| Let me feel the strength of my blackness | C |
| And break out of this domination | X |
Seke Bharu
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