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Colored Girls
July 15, 2012
We are colored girls,
filled in with broken wax.
A sketch for us each unfurls-
we observe, and begin the cracks.
We are fractured girls,
they chip us from our shells.
Only when the divested form uncurls-
‘tis not what we wanted, but who tells?
We are hushed girls,
made perfect with their aid.
Now as each skirt and thought untwirls-
our greatest fear is that our new colours will fade.
© Jennifer H., Bethesda, MD
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