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the culture of someone who doesn't belong

By Hannah RosePublished 5 years ago 1 min read
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photography by: me

My culture was the beach

Once a week every summer

It was the parking lot behind the runway

It was the bag packed to get away

Its was the simple yet complex color of my skin a milky way

My culture was pain

It was five boy cousins and a brother growing up

It was me getting beat up

It was always having to keep up

It was trying not to give up

My culture was laughter

It was laughing till we peed

It was laughing when we bleed

It was laughing while they screamed

All around us

My Culture was beauty

It was never being enough

It was always being enough

It was always having enough

It was never giving enough

My culture was music

It was learning to sing

It was singing while we scream

It was the song from the truck that sold ice cream

It was the song she played then she flew from her seat

Out of the grip of heaven onto the ground of this earth and the ceiling of hell

My culture was happiness

It was always seeming happy

It was never being happy

It was trying to be happy

It was wishing, praying, hoping, happy

My culture was love

It was family love

It was unwarranted love

It was wanting love

It was craving love

It was pushing away love

My culture was complicated

It was the beach

It was pain

It was laughter

It was beauty

It was music

It was happiness

It was LOVE

My culture was this and more

My culture was different than yours

My culture did not have an ethnicity

My culture did not have a country, but a feeling.

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Hannah Rose

All of the photography on my posts is my own. I am a different kind of artist, I cant draw, but I see the world through a camera lens, and write from that perspective.

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