Julia's+Poetry+Page

Julia's Poetry Page

**“I AM…” ** Alive, clumsy, mysterious, different. But on the outside, feelings I refrain. Though my heart beat matches any other. My face, complexion is not the same.

Brunette, wide eyed, lost. Traveling in numbers, or sometimes far apart.  My ancestors came here, all with a cost. From ships to horse back, many lands they came. All searching to find that American Dream. From Africa to England; we are all the same.

Everyday seems to be a battle. However I continue to grow stronger. False judgment, misunderstanding, hate. Can the world go on this way much longer?

<span style="display: block; font-family: Vivaldi; font-size: 14pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">Adversity, diversity, doesn’t change your skeletal structure. <span style="display: block; font-family: Vivaldi; font-size: 14pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">Religion, poverty, crime, faith. <span style="display: block; font-family: Vivaldi; font-size: 14pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">But didn’t our heavenly father commune, <span style="display: block; font-family: Vivaldi; font-size: 14pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">Our brothers drinking from the same cup.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Vivaldi; font-size: 14pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">I am me, that’s never going to change. <span style="display: block; font-family: Vivaldi; font-size: 14pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">Whose to judge? <span style="display: block; font-family: Vivaldi; font-size: 14pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">I like being strange. If I’m a degenerate than what shall we name you? If we trace your pedigree will we find that no flaw marks your family tree? So what I’m an awkward combination of Negros and East Europeans Sure I don’t look like you but were not supposed to be identical But my bad I forgot that you’re not the one who got saddled with the name imbecile My grandfather wasn’t revered considering his social standing However the foundation he laid, you could call it my safe landing My family considered him a hero But because he was African American he’s a zero? Irish heritage pumps through my veins If they weren’t real natives, born from the states It would be their names you take in vain According to those of you whom are outsiders, whom I like to call ignorant bigots I am a shiftless moron, simply unfit Im a mut, a dog under your feet Beneath my bed I refuse to retreat No matter our races, our counties, our centuries of heat I do believe that all humans have a heartbeat Think of me as you must And ill continue to blow through you and any other pure bread Just as the wind blows through dust. ||
 * ** Degenerate? I think not **

<span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"> **// In Remembrance of the Lost //** <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"> **__<span style="color: red; font-family: "Berlin Sans FB Demi","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Lost Generation __** <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Born and Died in //<span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1810 // <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Whatever happened…? <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">To this // Native Civilization // <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Between their arrival to Flinders Isle <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Then the great escorting <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">With their **<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">own **<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> people <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">They were __ forbidden __<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> from **// consorting //** <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Amongst themselves they had **<span style="color: #92d050; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">value **<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> and <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% black; color: red; font-family: Broadway; font-size: 16pt;">p <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% black; color: #ffc000; font-family: Broadway; font-size: 16pt;">r <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% black; color: yellow; font-family: Broadway; font-size: 16pt;">i <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% black; color: #00b050; font-family: Broadway; font-size: 16pt;">d <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% black; color: #0070c0; font-family: Broadway; font-size: 16pt;">e <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Even if they were nothing but “**// animals //**” <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">They were <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow; color: #a50021; font-family: Jokerman; font-size: 12pt;">Natives <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">But to the <span style="color: #6868a5; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">Europeans <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> they were nothing but money <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Today they became ** lost ** <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Slowly, painfully, expunged pejoratives <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">How could we go <span style="color: #3333ff; font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">silent <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">? <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">‘…it wasn’t our **// discrimination //**<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">…’ <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"> __<span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "Goudy Stout","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Australia __<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> was another country <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Who’ve gone through **//segregation//**? <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A field’s fruit <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> ruined, <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Sprayed with the ** wrong ** pesticides...  <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Now apply that to all of the places <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Who’ve gone through <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% blue; color: lime; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium Cond","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">CULTURAL GENOCIDE <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">? <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">They have been ** misplaced ** <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">But are __<span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium Cond","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">never __<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> forgotten <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It’s a shame it took so long to remember this culture <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Whose ** roots **were so <span style="color: #83bbc1; font-family: "High Tower Text","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">distraught <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and ** rotten **<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">…?