Ambiguity
When they ask me what I am, when they ask me where I'm from, when they ask me who I am. My answers are never enough. Nunca es suficiente. "But you GOTTA be something more than that"! "I can't figure you out"! My looks get trivialized as if I were the last piece of the puzzle before some kind of reward. Well I've got some news for you, product of colonial brainwash, the only prize you'll get is me calling you out on your mierda. When the hell did you become the police of my appearance? "You're just ambiguous", "tranquilízate que sólo era una pregunta", "I just want to know", "relax it's just a compliment". These damned micro aggressions affect mi alma, mi cuerpo y mi corazón. Let me share some labels with you: Afro-peruana, mestiza, Montréalaise. These are just some of the pieces that make up my complicated and unapologetic being. With these facets of my identity, I share struggles and resilience they're NOT to appease your need to box me in.
So don't let my so-called ambiguity fool you. I may look "confusing" to your colonized eyes but esta alma, este cuerpo y este corazón are an act of resistance to the depoliticization, systemic oppression, y la violencia contra mi gente. So think twice before you speak, antes que me preguntes what I am. No existo for your entertainment or your curiosity. I am not your "exotic" territory to discover. Oh wait. HOLD UP. How can you discover something that was already there? My bad, what I really meant was ROB, PILLAGE, RAPE, DESTROY, APPROPRIATE and EXPLOIT. So don't go columbusing my being.
Decolonize your mind or keep dem windows of ignorance moving along for there was never any ambiguity here.
So don't let my so-called ambiguity fool you. I may look "confusing" to your colonized eyes but esta alma, este cuerpo y este corazón are an act of resistance to the depoliticization, systemic oppression, y la violencia contra mi gente. So think twice before you speak, antes que me preguntes what I am. No existo for your entertainment or your curiosity. I am not your "exotic" territory to discover. Oh wait. HOLD UP. How can you discover something that was already there? My bad, what I really meant was ROB, PILLAGE, RAPE, DESTROY, APPROPRIATE and EXPLOIT. So don't go columbusing my being.
Decolonize your mind or keep dem windows of ignorance moving along for there was never any ambiguity here.