Mine is a beautiful shell A shell so beautiful I was shackled And enslaved for it Mine is a beautiful shell A shell so beautiful I'm made to feel shameful of it A shell so beautiful I was considered property Shell too beautiful to be real Mine is so beautiful others try to recreate it This skin tone has caused many deaths This skin tone has caused many oppressions This skin tone is admired This skin tone is coveted This skin tone commands power That is why, this skin tone is hated Because it is forever feared.
We spend a great deal of time thinking about the changes we want to make in our lives, however, we fail to make those changes for one reason or another. To us, we have logically valid reasons why we don't make those changes. Most of the time we fear the unknown; we don't know what the outcome of our change; we're afraid of letting go of the known for the unknown. So, what do we do instead? We settle for the known, we watch our souls wither, until we don't recognize ourselves.