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Chanel Dior Apr 2017
Oh Jamaican girl,where is your patois?
where is your long dreads of natural hair?
your culture?

Jamaican girl,sing your country's national anthem
How do you not like reggae?
what kind of Jamaican are you?

You see the ackee and codfish I stuffed down my throat on a Saturday morning would never be enough for them.
My extinctive use of the English language made them sick at their guts
The fact that my waistline won't move in such a manner to alarm others.

Born in the Yard
Grew up in the suburbs
Never boastful;always grateful

So Jamaican girl you try to act white on purpose?
Wear 'American clothes'
And perm your hair?

My nationality will coexist throughout my veins
Will never hit sunlight unless my tongue decides to move in that direction.
Will never be ashamed of my heritage as I am proud of it,yet also modified to not be defined by it.
Chanel Dior Jun 2015
understanding that my mistakes have been mistaken for lessons,
lessons that do nothing but make me look bad.
because everyone wants a say in what you do, and how you do it.
what you say and how you say it.

you announced you have a point,well your points have became pointless.
I will go through this process.
that I may make intense progress.
I don't care if you think less,of me.

they always tend to notice all the bad you do,
they want you to be happy,
but they put all the sad in you.
I clap my hands at the audience of ridicules.
for they have took the very dreams I pursued.

open up your mind.
for you have already became blind,
to your eyes.
is it me or life you utterly despise?

I am walking on my heart,
and if I had known from the start,
that this pain would take its own toll
I'd be up and out on a roll.

— The End —