I am just a fetish
I am just a fetish, When a white boy tried to play with my trauma in order to have sex with me He told me that I was beautiful for my light brown skin as he never wanted to give me pleasure because like capitalism, he commodified my brown body for an orgasm and left me vulnerable on the white, cracked sidewalk I am just a fetish, when straight cisgender white and women of color only care about my lipstick How I look on stage, but not when I talk they wonder how I look, but not how I am going to get home tonight When I tell them that people say I am ugly, disgusting, and a fa***t they just say that I am beautiful and move on to the next thing as if I am worthy of my own violence I am just a fetish, When people compare my womanhood to Caitlyn Jenner Even though she is like the countless other white women who told my mother to only speak English I am just a fetish, When I am up on stage Heart o...