Best Complexion Poems
Take me back to the days
Where the feel of texture and distinguishing colors among Africans didn't matter
Where the only word was black, and not pale or darker
Where the only weapon was loyalty upto royalty actually smarter
Where mother toung superiority excelled the rest was after.
Where rituals and ceremonies were significant in culture
Where oral traditions activities was a preservation of history.
Where inclusivity wasn't done based on tribe, status or age
Where inspiration and education was passed from generation to generation through storytelling.
Where people performed rather than spoke
Where the media was the speaker's tone, volume, and cadence
Take me back to the days
Where people did not blame nationality, ethnicity,
culture, economics and education
Where there was no colonial domination
Where there was no concept of slavery, racism or discrimination.
Where Africa was rich in culture and not the fallacy of primitive and a backward jungle
Where Africa was peaceful and not a race with guns and violent.
Where shouting am black and proud wasn't important because color didn't matter.
Where respect for elders remained an unbroken cornerstone in african culture
Where birth, marriage and burial rites was honored.
Welcome to the days
Where exporting and importing of cultures have become the trend
Where cultures travel through deserts, cross trade routes and through immigration borders
Where exchange disregards our notions of geography and race.
Where virtues such as hospitality, empathy, courtesy and respect is long gone
Where the only thing left are byproducts of culture.
Where multiculturalism has faded and everone hails on becoming one
The richness is not in Africa looking like Europe
What makes the world beautiful is in the diverse contributions
Welcome to the days
Where culture is paraded on an image of drum beating
Where media's notion is dancing naked or eating bush meat
Where in the midst of it all culture lost its definition
Where there is no importance in defending a territory with no boundaries.
Where technology dominated our land and mind
The struggle lies in reclaiming what is rightfully ours
I refuse to fall and cramble because I'm for the idea of sameness.
In the mind is where it all starts
I put no blame on culture, not my affliction.
“The Complexion of Beauty”
by: Eric L. Boddie
Whether you’re light, bright or dark
Many hold it at extreme amounts
But the truth of the matter is
The heart is the only color that counts
And yours is truly beautiful
And your accessories are Divine
Because from the ground up
You are nothing less than fine
Because your body is an extension
Of the beauty within your soul
Which shines so brightly
Since your heart is made of gold
As pure as the water
In an untarnished stream
Both nurturing and refreshing
Satisfaction seldom felt outside of dreams
True to yourself
There is no other way you could be
God colored you in beauty
For all hearts to see
EarthTribe questions
partisan polarization
Of healthy democratic co-governing care
Of enriching polypathic sex care
Of inter-religious multicultural wealth care...
About abundance
within spacious sacred RightBrain silence
more powerful and enlightening
than mere LeftBrain monological chattering
dominance
About in-between apartheid times
both sacred and profane,
comedic and tragic,
mono- and poly- theistic passions
universally unitarian,
Yang and yintegral
dipolar co-arising
organic health and wealth care
Patriarchal ego-giving out
to EarthMother receiving in
and vice-versa
co-gravitating indigenous wisdom
His/Her sharing
of polycultural
regenerative
bicameral bilateral consciousness
Are these political and economic
sexual and sacred experiential choices
co-passionately win/win
co-operative peace?
restorative justice?
Or more Lose/Lose oppressive
to both Yang top Giver
and not(not) Yintegral bottom Receiver?
And/or
some win/lose Business As Usual
HealthCooperative reducing GlobalWealthCompetitive scarcity,
RightWing
LeftBrain dominant
Patriarchal/Capital competitive
devolutionary theoretical WorldView?
And/or
All bilateral triangulating EgoHealth/EcoWealth
restorative justice redemption,
therapeutic democracy options
explored together in nonviolently communicating
tao-balanced
give and take ways?
In-between increasing monocultural fabrications
growing negative paranoid positions
against trusting monotheistic Love
to optimize healthy democratic
sensory-neural
EarthMother health care
More polyentheistic wealth receiving
EarthTribe empowering
organically inclusive
creative and recreative
Health/wealth
empowering and enlightened
choices
cooperatively bilateral
curiously questioning
silent thought-provoking
voices.
What is the human complexion
Much more than color of skin
Fragile, fierce and nuanced
A reflection from within
A million moving pieces
Catalyzed by everything
Creating combinations
Tied up like a ball of string
How to learn, accept and grow
How to understand
The complex in complexion
Of our wondrous fellow man
She shows us pricelessly porcelain peach perfection
With her flawless gorgeous young complexion
she brings delight to the garden
in her crepe chiffon dress
umbrella is a marvelous romantic touch