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Reality Check

December 27, 2017February 23, 2021 by milena rampoldi

Blakely Veronica

Chocolate brown butt so round

For all the world to see.

Fine as wine, just my kind

But why doesn’t he want me?

Tall or short, he loves to court

The ladies in the mall

Wide of girth with lots of worth

But none for me at all.

Blue-collar white collar it doesn’t
matter

Black men are all the rage!

Brown,
caramel, cinnamon or smoke

I say hello

and they don’t even wave.

“What’s going on?” I ask myself

Have I been hiding under a rock?

Black men used to love black women

Now to white women they seem to
flock.

Don’t fret you say and keep holding
on

Things will change in time.

Or I could do just like the Brothas

But I’m not of the mind to cross the
line.

Black men look the same and so do I

When did dating start to change?

I alter my hair, my weight and my
clothes

They don’t notice my looks have been
rearranged.

Then it dawned on me, a frightening
reality

My changes don’t matter in spite

Of my weight, my smile or even my
hairstyle

Cause’ Brothas prefer women who are
“light” or white.

Since I am neither, and I don’t
aspire to be

I am comfortable with who I am

But suddenly this dating thing

Makes me feel like I ain’t worth a
damn!

I’m not angry, just a little
perplexed

What is a Sistah to do? Does this
mean

Brothas are off limits

And my future with one is through?!

I refuse to believe that in spite of
the trends

I won’t give up and I’ll do all I can

Cause I want exactly what most white
women got

And that’s the love of a BLACK MAN!