By has the earth always revolved around the sun
has the sun ever revolved around the earth
i guess what i am asking is, can it?
take a girl, paint her brown, and let her soak it in–
eyelids, to fingertips, to the soles of her feet
Permanence
this brown don’t wash out with soap and water it stains her through and through
she has been like this since the beginning of time
has she been pinned against assumptions since the beginning of time,
or were they developed?
she would not know because
she was simply born into an earth that revolves around the sun–around these assumptions
while others were born into families with one-sidedness
this narrow-mindedness is constantly being pumped in their veins
the problem is not how hard or how long it takes her to prove herself
it is the fact that this painted girl has to prove herself in the first place
painted girl
painted with Your assumptions
painted with Your sorry excuses for an apology
she didn’t choose to be brown, she just got lucky…
but, after all, the earth doesn’t revolve around brown girls…
it revolves around boiling flames
the earth loves to come close to the sun
she loved to come close to the sun, too
but more often than not she gets burned
and sometimes she even catches fire
Then
is left with scars
a reminder that, indeed, the earth has always revolved around the sun