17 NOV 2017 AT 23:28

Abuse. Torture.
Burn. Peel.
All that you can do.
Glowing. Pale.
Cracked. Coloured.
All it can be.

It's Here. There.
Everywhere on you.
They say that about God,
but He's mostly on the inside.

It has different shades and hues.
Like our thoughts, just more visible.
If only it said what we're on the inside too!

Black, and you're better as a slave.
Brown, and you're made for skilled labour.
Fairer, oh boy, you hit the jackpot.

So much for a colour, a tint, a hue.
Only if all of it were true.

Beneath all of it,
aren't we all kith and kin?

S for Skin

- Landlocked Sailor