Mixed Feelings

Mixed feelings You are the between thing The afterthought of when their speaking Always competing, but never completing; on your quest for completion Mixed feelings In your Racial dealings Where you struggle to find your place and meaning Cuh you can't be one without the other, but the other makes the one suffer Mixed Feelings Your identity always takes a beating Your trauma is seen as Racial healing You spent your life, neither side, but traumatised, seen black but also white Mixed Feelings Your struggle deepening As your voice is weakening Your silence, almost violent but tired of the racial tyrants and their dividers Mixed feelings Cuh inbetween you are meant to live Yet society has forced you to pick You are a person of colour, you are seen as one and not the other But still you Are not a sister or a brother Mixed Feelings Of a Mixed Being Never heard but always seen