Why Me Poem by jackie compton

I sit and I wonder.
Why me?
Is it because my skin is dark?
Is because my eyes are not blue as the sky above?
I sit and I wonder.
Why me?

Is it because my hair is not gold.
Like the amber waves of grain.
You hold so highly.
I sit and I wonder.
Why me?
Am I not a man like you?
Created in the image of a living God.
Just like you.
I sit and I wonder
Why me.

I sit and wonder.
Why me.
Why in the eyes of your justice?
My life hold no value.
Is it because my eyes are brown.
And my skin is dark.
Is it because my hair is not straight and blows in the wind.
Like your hair