Half in Shadow

Illustration from the cover of Hurston's Dust Tracks on a Road. New York, NY : HarperPerennial, 1991.

I learned that skin was no measure of what was inside people
– Zora Neale Hurston

MOVEMENT #1

Time and place have had their say.
I cease to ache over the moons distance from me.
Somehow, my heart remains stifled.

A cosmic loneliness is my shadow.
I have seen deep love betrayed,
yet, I must feel and know it.

Few people receive visions and dream dreams.
Lonesome, I suffer strange fates,
while others play in yards without care.

When you die in high favor,
take a seat at heavens podium
and watch the world go by with me.

MOVEMENT #2

I ache over the moons distance from me.
The stars is whom I belong to.

Few people receive visions and dream dreams.

Lonesome, I suffer strange fates,
while other children play in yards without care.

I have seen deep love betrayed,
through my father’s rejection of my being.

Displaced in a world
where black and white                   reject me.

A cosmic loneliness is my shadow.

- Yaz

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