Bitter Berries

The blacker the berry the sweeter the juice.
So I guess I'm bitter sweet.

Visually, I ain't all that "Black" but
Please believe I got black all up in me.

Just because my skin isn't as rich as black
berries doesn't mean it's poor.

Just because I'm light skinned doesn't mean
I clam only European. My ancestors are just
as diverse as this country.

Where light skins and dark skins are more
War than civil. We're fighting each other
 over rights that have been stolen by
people who some we claim to be and some
Of us wish to be.

They stole the freedom to think it seems like.

So many black girls wish they were white girls....
And I'll never understand.

The only room they made for us in their red,
White, and blue are the blood and the Cripps.

             Black blood Red.
             Black cripp Blue.
     We kill each other and white just watch.

Why do we think
 we're less beautiful
 the way we are?

Dark skin, light skin, to them
we're all black skin.
Black skin, black face, to them
 we're wearing black face.

If freedom was abolished today and slavery
Adopted like the mixed kid with curly hair,
We'd all cupid shuffle back into the
roller decks of slave names.

They'd whip their names out across our backs,
Make us scream out master. We claim we're the
Masters of our own fate but, who is God?

You know, there was a time we all held hands
 and prayed to him.
And the only book we had was the bible.

Your skin being light don't make you white.
Your skin being dark don't make you ugly.

Stop pulling and tugging at yourself, God made
Plans for that skin.

Nothing about your berries are rotten, every
Sprinkled speck of you is sweet like black berries.
We come in all shades.

Just because your TV said one skin was prettiest
 Does not make is fact!
Non of what you girls argue about has been
Proven by science or God so
you idolize yourselves.

Talk no more so very proud, let not arrogance
Come from your mouth; for the Lord is a God
Of knowledge, and by him actions will be weighed.
                                   1 Samuel 2:3

Never be too proud. Yeah, you may be light
But not light enough to not be knocked off your
Cloud.

Please think twice before you spit poison
From your light black lips onto another
Girl with dark black lips.

It's just as painful as when write people spit onto us.
Not every black berry is sweet.

And just because we're light don't assume life
Is easy. We're still black. Had to step our black
Feet in the same back doors as you.

Don't assume that lighter is white.
Light is bitter sweet for me.
What are your berries like?