Rainbow Within Our Bones
My heart grew fond of you quickly
your brown golden skin sparkled in the sunlight as we lay side by side
an entrancing and sharp contrast to my melancholy paleness,
sprawled in the grassy field with our fingers entwined
we sang love ballads to the sky.
your eyes were like dark amber jewels
the brightness of your smile
filled my heart with a kind of desperation for sooth
from the storms of this world and
years later I still imagine us together,
I fancy us running into one another and laughing,
holding on to each other once more,
collecting the different shades of our experience together
and frowning at our ease with which
we allowed the ignorance of society to separate us
simply due to a difference in skin tone,
All the while we each held a rainbow within our bones.
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