Page 34 - YSCC poetry booklet 2021

Ebony in a Sea of Ivory

Dark magnificent strong tropical
Heavy endowed with pigment and earthiness.
Light strong mineral enriched
Grounded adding beauty to majestic beasts.
Light dark coming together a masterpiece arises
Beethoven blaring from the culmination of the two
Kings reaching out for Amarula trees portraying a mixture of the two.
Greed hate fear dissecting the two
Each is left to wander on their own
Each strong, independent in their own regard
Dark creating tropical paradises
Light creating tropical getaways
Shunned from ever mixing again
Dark vilified for being so dark and different
Her tropical paradises ridiculed for having no light
Light praised for being so bright
Her tropical getaways the subject of praise
Shades of light wanting to mix with dark
Missing that beauty that culminated from their joining
Shades of light threatened fearful of being dimmed, swallowed overcome by dark
Tropical darkness strong darkness, beautiful darkness
Brilliant darkness a bittersweet oxymoron
Dark brightness casting shadows
Darkness marred by pain and rejection
Shades of light tainted by guilt and fear
A never ending dance of hues
Forced to conform like reds and blues
Slowly dark dying out giving way to light

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