you fool

I know you prefer her

With blue eyes like sea water

Little freckles coloured copper

Everything you’re not, but desire.

Like the moon

She's course and pale

Cold and distant, but,

Somehow, she'll prevail.

In me is a pain

She'll never know

You see the world is promised

To skin like snow

I am the colour of earth

My eyes are black, the midnight sky

I am more than grime and dirt

I know my spirit will never die

Never again will I beg for scraps of love

I was raised to burn bright

I know I was made to rise above

And only a fool could deny my light.