Best Light Skinned Poems

In our Asian-cum-Eastern land
No one prefers or admires
the dark-skinned or tanned

Gosh, as if the fair-skinned alone
belonged to the so-called fairer sex
And here, 'black is beauty' a phrase unheard
All falling for the light skinned almost in reflex! 

Bachelors on the hunt for a non-fictional Asian 'Snow-white'
Even...

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Light skin, fair skin
All clamoured for by 
Creams to the rescue
Fading creams, toning creams
All bleaching creams

Women and men, old and young
all clamouring for light skin.
Looks enhancers 
creams a dozen to a penny

Melanin, so disdainful
Ebony black frowned upon;
Beauty markers haven chosen.

Women and men, old and young
All...

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