Racially ambiguous
A note to the confused colours in me
Dearly departed, look what you started...
Look at the seas which were merged, and conquered.
Look closer, see the people
Their lands divided and then parted
Racially ambiguous
Culturally confused
Look at all this diverse energy,
All these colours and cultures you fused
Now here is me, the daughter of your daughters
Reading content once burned, yet somehow so important.
Racially ambiguous,
Culturally confused
Look at all this toxic energy,
Look at mama’s new bruise
I wonder if she knows, that she had the choice to choose
I wonder when she knew
How to give back the borrowed, or how to soothe the blues
Did she speak to ancestors in the flickering lights of red and orange too?
So here is her daughter,
A little lost, and still confused
Observing great-grans poems, the magic that went unperused
“Lentas e lentas, suas maos avaras
Vao desfiando pedriarias raras
Terco que as ondas vao rezando as vezes”
- Slow and slow,
- Go unravel the stones
- The waves are praying for you
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