I Am the Rainbow

I Am The Rainbow

       A poem  by Karolyn Denson Landrieux

If you separate all of the colors from my brown body

Then I am the rainbow

I am the red of my native ancestors

Dancing under the stars

I am the yellow of my Asian sisters and brothers

I am the tan of my mother and my father

I am the black of my great great grandmother

Whose daddy was a slave

I am the white of his master

I am the burnt orange of the sun that bathes me

I am the blue that my soul feels at times

I am the violet purple

That is the favorite color of my eldest granddaughter

And I am the pink of the other

I am the green of the earth

All

Of this

Is me

In my brown body

I am unique

I am The Rainbow