Love Myself

Wondering eyes, whispers from a distance
Cheeto stained prints, pointing my differences
Talk of the town, few hundred
First contact with immigrants
My New home (My new home)
Struggling to find a place to fit in
Can't be myself, cuz myself isn't in
Breeding feelings, negative
Hate the shade of my pigment
Oh no

I need to love me before I can love somebody else
And if you're lucky, you'll get to love me, just as well
No longer comfy with feelings unworthy of myself
So I'm gonna love me, cuz me is deserving, I'm top shelf

I used to think that this skin was a curse
Lighten it, increase worth
Coloring in my iris
Cuz only blue is enticing
Loosening up these curls
Guess tight curls ain't white girls
My speech labeled Caucasian
Guess niggas lack education?
Hold up hold up
Smartest people I know packed with melanin
Heaven sent
And my Jesus black and rocking hella dreads
My ancestors packed with Royals, not from Kansas
A mantis
Praying all these blessing to existence
How can you hate on me?
Serving all these looks y'all can't return a thing
I'm the progeny of kings and queens
Success runs in my family, like ABC

I need to love me before I can love somebody else
And if you're lucky, you'll get to love me, just as well
No longer comfy with feelings unworthy of myself
So I'm gonna love me, cuz me is deserving, I'm top shelf