Green is my goal
Of saving:
Sacred Earth
Treacherous Money
Necessary Sanity.
But no matter how much green is around me,
I’m still brown.

Yet Yellow is not me,
I can’t cheer for the heavenly shine
can’t belie under the stars
can’t see “the bright afterlife”
No, I don’t believe in faith
But, I’m still brown.

I rejoice under Red
Lust for blood and
health?
Must shoot guns
and

sterile needles?
Yet,
I’m still brown.

I am not
Gold, Purple or Gray--like Kate Middleton
in respect to Green
For as much as I want it,
I need to be,
and I am,
BROWN.

I’m brown because:
I follow realism
embrace logic
and exterminate BS,
I’m brown because:
melanin is cool
Affirmative Action runs rampant
and my 1,241,491,960 cousins
support me.
I’m brown because...I am.