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 One size does not fit all for me

Not because I have curvier hips or bigger lips

But because I'm a person of color in a monochrome country

The blue and white

Stars and stripes

Do not allow me to be free 

In the comfort of my own skin

I would say I am a hard class worker of America

Others would say “America works harder for your class”

“We have to compensate for the fails of your misses”

I feel as if I have to protect every angle of myself

Like bodyguards surrounding my existence

Except no one of the law would surround or protect me

The One Drop Blood law

Left me in awe

As they tried to keep as many people 

Oppressed

As they could

Leaving nations in stress 

One size does not fit all for me

One size does not fit all for me

Because others can go home and claim their patronymic

The American English me a gimmick

I am required by law to distance my name... 

From a tribe that no longer has its fame…

People have called me everything

Savages, Pocahontas

Though I love watching her on the silver screen

I know a courageous, beautiful heroine 

Is not what they mean

I need to prove my ethnicity

On a lined paper placard

Keeping track of my blood like animals from a barnyard

One size does not fit all for me

 One size does not fit all for me

The taunts and the trends derived from my culture

Fox eye

Letting a spoon fall down the stairs

As it goes ding. chang. ching.

Is how my last name came to be?

My ancestors wouldn’t be proud

For their strong line and name to be mocked

The younger kids and even the ignorant adults say

“You are all the same”

Japanese, Chinese, Taiwanese, Vietnamese, Timorese

I bet you do not even know half of these

Cambodian, Singaporean, Korean, Indonesian, Laotian

They are all just across the ocean

And the only thing I can not see

Is why you can’t educate yourself properly

One size does not fit all for me

 One size does not fit all for me

Last but certainly not least

Those who have held the country on their backs

Here are the cold hard facts

Their children being trapped in cages

Our families of all different ages 

Separated

Being called illegal, thugs, killers

While we work hard for the jobs others do not want 

We are tricked, ridiculed, and being taunt

My birthmarks, my accents, my outside appearance

I grew up thinking none of that mattered

I was told people would love me for my kindness and generosity

Now I am being told that I am not pretty

Purposely mimicking my language

Not even having the decency to engage

With me

And ask where I am really from

Instead of assuming we are all the same

No different, like the Asians 

These racist ignorant people do not know

Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans

Salvadorans, Guatemalans, Ecuadorians

Peruvians, Hondurans, and Colombians

Are not all the same

Yet, we all get the blame for the ruin of nations and countries

 Just because we are different and fighting to put our families in better positions

Excuse me, for wanting a better life for my child

Whether it is miles away from me

One size does not fit all for me

 One size does not fit all for me

From the creator of this poem

The racism I have experienced

Getting asked if I can say something in Spanish

I am Hispanic

But just because I do not speak Spanish

I can no longer associated with my heritage

My culture?

People coming up to me and pulling my hair

Like I am some bear

You can pet at a zoo

Who do I look like to you?

And finally when I am judged for my darker complexion

I know I am not perfection

But I would like to be treated like a human

We will never fit into one size