Mystery of Skin

[FlowerChild]

The mystery is your eyes.

And your voice, and the way your hands and mine would look intertwined, how low your voice would get should it whisper in my ear, and how pale my skin would look close to yours.

Your skin is the mystery, dark, like the bitterest chocolate or the night sky, and oh, how I want to be the stars in that sky, bright dots in the darkness, a mystery unto themselves. 

The mystery is your body, so lithe and graceful that I wonder why God did not give you wings so you could fly like an angel.

The mystery is how I am around you and how I search for you, how I yearn to touch you, hold you close, see your skin and mine like the two sides of the world, dark and light like the beginning of dawn.

The mystery is West Texas and how I want to spit in the eye of people that admit to being against us together....the mystery is how we have come so far and yet not moved hardly at all. 

[Edward Dean]

Poetic beauty F.C. You're one talented young lady.

[FlowerChild]

Mike- Nothing makes me more sad than a girl in the upper socio-economic level, educated, brought up in the exact same society as you an me, who lives in a fairly open-minded part of the world, telling me she just doesn't think it is "right" or "normal".........it makes me sick. 

Cita- Thanks :) You make me pretty proud yourself :)

[Cita]

Ah.  You make me so proud.  So proud. 

[Mike Handley]

I wish more people held your beliefs, FC. Miscegenation laws were rampant until the Supreme Court deemed them unconstitutional in the late 1960s, and, even then, many statutes stayed on the books (unenforceable) for 40 more years. Of course, racism still continues in the dark hearts and little-bitty minds of some folk. But this cancer pales in comparison to the bias against same-sex couplings and marriages.

[James Storbacon]

The way the piece goes from love to reason, I really enjoyed it.

[Jamie Hogan]

"see your skin and mine like the two sides of the world" is so provocative and poignant. And expansive, as it should be. Outstanding piece.

[FlowerChild]

I cannot imagine having that kind of prejudice. Honestly, pigment does not equal personality, circumstances do. I might just do that, T ;) Master race is good if culture is not lost :) And to be honest, the subject of this six is from Germany....so their argument is invalid ;) And thank you :)

[Teresa]

Yes, there are those who still have a problem with mixing.  In SugarLand, TX, almost everyone is mixed.  Black/white, Indian/Black, Hispanic/white, Chinese/White, Indian/Chinese, Vietnamese/Black...  It's the Mixture Mecca.  Move here...;-)  We're creating a master race - Beige.

That third sentence is heaven.