To Liberate

The costs of my feminine African skin

speaking costs me how I’m perceived – by others;

Silence costs me how I’m perceived – by my own

When, how, in what situations am I comfortable to be?

Speech and silence are to be – for I do as my mind guides me to – therefore I will always be wrongfully seen.

By the eyes of who sees me the way they've been taught to see me – pardon. – by the eyes of who does not want to see me.

To liberate would mean to have the Comfortability Of Being.