Mixed Feelings

I find it hard to write about my race

because my feelings are written on my face.

Not in my expression,

but in the peaks of my nose

and the valleys of my sunken eyes.

White nose.

Brown eyes.

Mixed feelings.

Choose a side.

I can’t.

I’m unable.

What is written on my face is the answer.

It is woven into the tapestry of my DNA.

OUR DNA

To all the 

Indian-Irish

Jamaican-Scottish

Filipino-Italian

Icelandic-Chinese

Korean-Ghanians

I won’t let them make us pick a side.

I’d rather be a mixed being

with mixed feelings.