Letters To My Brown Skin

By Bastet Herring

Growing up in a socity that made me question my very existence, because of the color of my skin. My life have been filled with moments of hating my complextion because I was not the ideabeauty standard. Now as a adult I wrote letter's to myself to keep growing. Sharing my deepest thoughts and views about my skin, my relationship with my ancestors, and most importantly healing the little black girl within.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bastet Herring
• Release date: Jul 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201603748

Book preview

Brown Skin 

Brown Queen lift your head, your crown is falling

Brown King it’s okay to cry, soak your pillow, if need be,

Brown child draw your picture as you see fit.

Brown King we care about your mental health.

Protect your brother at all cost,

Brown Queen we see your pain, it’s okay.... you don’t have to be so strong all the time.

Brown King take her hand, tell her you respect her.

Brown Queen look him in his eyes, tell him you don’t hate him. love me,

We got each other,

Sun loves your moon and she’ll give you all the stars your sky desires.

Many men

I’ve laid under many men

Fucked me while I was high

They didn’t care that I wasn’t sober

Figures.... I'm high out of my mind, I'm willing to fuck, popping pills again

Let's try LSD

Some shrooms would be nice, a line of that white girl won’t hurt.

This weed isn't doing it for me anymore

I could drink a whole bottle of patron

I'm so high

Let's do an orgy

I said it and I meant it.

We see you  

Beat down by society before he exits