Quatrain of God's Skin - 1249 - Yorktown Disciple

Quatrain of God's Skin

Skin - external covering

1.
I was an African before
I became an
Asian,

I was an Indian before
I became a
Caucasian.

I was young before
I went quietly over the
hill,

I had mountains of courage
before I lost my
will.

2.
My spirit was pure before
my race
mattered,

I was humiliated before
I was zestfully
flattered.

Humanity is fixated on
the membrane it
bares,

I am left to ask God,
just what skin He
wears.

Yorktown Disciple
2003