Kaevion Moore

“The colors you see……are me!’’

The colors you see……are me!

The darkest colors paint a tapestry

of the darkest times experienced by me.

Feeling like I wasn’t enough….

Five years of feeling this way….

I used to not like myself.

Blue is the color of all of the things that I had to go through.

Red is how I felt when I was bullied.

Purple is the color that painted my sadness.

Sometimes it even painted me mad.

My colors never collided.

Each one was tied to the other.

Dark blue is for the tears that I cried.

Black is for the gun violence that almost took my Uncle’s life.

The colors of the rainbow remind me of the Skittles which Trayvon had.

Living in fear because of my skin color makes me mad.

But a new day has come.

I am not who I used to be.

I will live my life everyday and put on the colors of joy.

A rainbow of colors is what I see when I work on building a stronger me.

My belief in myself sets me free.

I know that I am worthy of love,

because all of my blessings come from above.

Like the brightest diamond, I am good enough.

Now, I don’t live in doubt,

because I know who I am all about!

Like the color periwinkle

I will twinkle as a star in the sky.

I will live and dance,

so brightly colored for everyone to see,

unrecognizable,

free,

and unapologetically me!