Double Identity
Created with a single identity
My dignity, honour depends on that identity
Identity handed to me by Divinity
As Divinity did throughout humanity
Black is my originality, I seek not to lose it
Yet this double identity is forced on me
Ah my identity with white has been dotted
My culture, religion, tradition all stripped off me
The stripes all over me is the limitation
The white patches destroy my black orientation
Left me in an unfavourable, endless competition
Presumed me less a human because of my complexion
Now I want my blackness back, no more this mixture
Like a free bird I want to leap and fly up in the sky
To announce my freedom to the generations unborn
Only when the weight of this double identity is lifted
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