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HEARD ABOUT ESE?

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Have you heard about Ese?  Golden black Ese as we used to call her.  Her skin so beautiful that most people called her the goddess of the black race.  She went to papa Ijebu, who mixed pepper with lemon water, he added a little bit of carol white and a pinch of something which name, I can't recall. Suddenly the black in her skin vanished like magic, she was now "African snow white"  and she reigned in her head and her new found skin.  Ese was walking on the air, almost like her new skin gave her super powers.  Awhile later, there were cracks, itches,scratches and peelings... Her body was at war with itself.  Ese's skin changed colors more rapidly than a chameleon, no one could keep up. Then came the decay that went from her skin deep inside of her and in a flash, she was gone.   Ese died trying to be who she wasn't, she was so dissatisfied with being black in a black skin and I wonder why, what is so wrong with being black?  
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WHEN TOMORROW COMES

              WHEN TOMORROW COMES When tomorrow comes It will be just  yesterday that it all began My shattered story now united in the           Pages of my memory        My story has many parts, colours and           shapes...blue, black, good and ugly.  When tomorrow comes and my                     youngselves sit around the table With their ears in their hands  My mouth will tell the colourful                     imperfect story that birthed and                   made me.  When tomorrow comes and                           yesterday becomes impossible to travel to  I will stand in your midst with my                   wounds now healed and scars                       perfectly hidden behind my smile I will stand naked before you all                     and show myself to your ears because         your eyes will hold the  Cloud of rain gathered from your                   broken hearts.  I will let you all know that I'm no hero           but a survivor. I come from the storm, the
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CHANGES... (the scares and the hopes)

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"Change is constant" I wouldn't be first person to say this, as this is the best way the world simply explains change but however, I will be discussing change from my own lens.  I like to think that change is the most constant thing in life and yet hardly joyfully welcomed by humans but in order to avoid exaggerating, I would rather say most humans.  What about this compulsory  phenomenon in life makes it most needed and yet very terrifying. It's almost like most of us are in this bitter sweet relationship with change but the question is why? I really don't have the answers as I myself I'm trying to understand my feelings in this "situationship" with change and very recently so.  Change is often favourably seen as a tool or a marker for growth or promotion but it's not 100% positive, hence, it either leads to our progression or retrogression and that's where the scare is. In a world where change is constant and a very
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