"the story of indigo" by Ammu

a long time ago

ocean tales hold the story

of countless lives stricken with the cash crop of the world

and while i’m the astigmatic, racialized, genderless contradiction 

that bears the pain of what came, is, were, and are

i became indigo

for the disgust you feel

is the love i found

therefore, i found myself; found indigo

and rewrite the tale that stained us all