Standing among white faces, somehow I found it inside of me to smile outside even though I’m the only black girl in town. Say I’m ugly tell me you don’t like my kinky Afro hair or rich chocolate skin. Tell me I smell bad because my kind don’t bathe right. I must be funny good at sports lazy in schoolwork. Highest marks in the class – but they say I must have copied from some white boy or signed a Devil contract. I can face discrimination cold stares and all else – but not the indirect daggers sent from the blue eyes I love the most. He said it didn’t matter to him. Other opinions have since closed his mind. His heart has locked me out his arms have left my sides. But his smiles remain in a warm corner of my heart. 2007-10-01T23:21:56Z http://ficlets.com/feed/story/10587 <p>Great emotion, and we can see it through her eyes. I like it.</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/10587?basename=15439 2007-10-01T23:21:56Z Stovohobo http://ficlets.com/authors/stovohobo <p>Really puts discrimination into perspective, how cruel some people can be- its the content of character that matters most. amazingly beautifuly written poem that will stick in my mind long after I have read a1,000 more ficlets.</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/10587?basename=15426 2007-10-01T22:31:16Z SKermitgorf http://ficlets.com/authors/kermitgorf <p>it is amazing that you have managed to capture all that emotion into that poem. it&#8217;s kinda funny tho, i&#8217;m the only black girl in my town too. lol.</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/10587?basename=15422 2007-10-01T22:24:31Z Black Ink http://ficlets.com/authors/jazzyblackink