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Yatish is an academic of the soul.

 he has a Phd in smiling, a masters in loving and is an undergraduate of life.

He enjoys writing as a way of connecting emotions with experiences.

What's your story?

My True Hide

My birthright

Demises me.

 

My skin tone

Criminalizes me.

 

My face,

Despised,

Is me.

 

A little

Hair

On my

Chinny Chin

Chin

Never hurt a

Soul.

 

But

The grin

On their

Soon to be

Close

Faces

Is quite grim

And

I fall.

 

Why is it

We all seem

To

Fall?

 

Victims

To the

Search.

 

A simple search

For the answer

Leads

To

A hand

In my handhole.

 

There is no

Hand

Hold.

 

A cavity search

They call it.

 

But why do they look

So

Low

When my teeth are

Up

Here?

 

The teeth

Aren't the

Solution,

But the problem.

 

If I smile,

I have

Something

To

Hide.

 

In reality,

I'm showing

You

My true

Hide.

 

The skin

I wear,

The smile

I show,

Is nothing short

Of representative

Of the peace

I bring.

 

I am no alien.

 

Birthright

Dictates my life should

Be

American

But

I find myself being told

That only a

True

Ameri-Can

Can hold these privileges

I was born into.

 

I was not born

With every

Privilege,

But I do have

One.

 

One for all

All for one,

I am

Alive,

Well,

Joyous,

Smiling,

And no search

Can take that away

From

Me.

Just As The Pieces Fit In, We Grow The Picture

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