All day and all-night, thoughts run through my brain.
Of you and I and all we could gain.
Us together, we’d be a partnership of love.
But you won’t give me the time of day cause my complexion absorbs too much of the sun.
About the Writer
Kaku Kenyi is a South Sudanese Canadian Broadcasting Television student and poet that hopes to broaden people’s ideas of how black women should express their emotions through various art forms and has been previously feature in the Black Cabinet Magazine and Lean In A Collection of Canadian Poetry.
About the Artist
Tara Tomlinson is a 3rd year York University student who’s art can be found at her instagram page @deprogramme_ and is a wonderfully black woman.
Edited by Sun
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