WHERE DO I BELONG? The half caste!

WHERE DO I BELONG? The half-caste!

Where do I belong?

I am not black

I am not white

What am i?

  

Mommy is black

Daddy is white

But,

When I am with mommy’s family

I am considered white

When I am with daddy’s family

I am considered black

Where do I belong?

What am i? 

 

Only my parents acknowledge me as their child

Everywhere I go, I get pushed away

I don’t fit anywhere 

 

When I am at mother’s home

A sense of security flows through me

I feel safe

Nobody targets me for a good kill

They rather treat me like I am superior

I tell them

I am just one of you

“No, you are white!” is their response

But you are welcome to stay here

You are our daughter’s child

Even strangers are welcome to this compound

  

Father’s home doesn’t give me the peace

I am hunted down

Why?

I am black

I don’t fit

I don’t fit

I DO NOT FIT

In my own father’s land, I am not welcome

  

Father’s home doesn’t offer me the peace

I am hunted down

Why?

I have the flat nose of my mother and her people

The melanin in her skin flows through mine

My hair is full and fizzy

This makes me black

And my father’s people do not identify with this

Despite the brown that seeps through my skin

My father’s eye colour means nothing to them

The slight texture of his hair that dilutes the kinky of mommy’s doesn’t matter

To them I am black

And this is not my home

I am hunted like game meat

But this time for a trophy

  

I am not safe on my father’s streets

Neither are my mother and “her people”

We are not safe in our houses

They come after us

We cannot close our eyes

We cannot sleep in peace

  

Where do I belong?

Who am i?

Point me to where I belong?

I am lost

Where do I belong?

I need an identity!!!

Looks like I am not human on this planet

Imagine my life

Imagine my life and that of my mother and her people

To them ("father's people"), we are the same

Not worthy of staying in our home

A home they forced on us

And it is ours now

Where do they expect us to go

Where? Eh, where?

 

My mother’s people are outcasts!

A half-caste I am…

Until you all change your attitude towards me, towards us…

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Through the eyes of AYENYO Joanita