Albino

Just because I have Albinism 
Does not mean I am different from you
Just because my skin is more lighter than yours
Does not mean I come from a different planet then you
Just because I have light eyelashes 
Does not mean I can`t see like you
I have the same blood like you 
I feel pain the same way that you do
So don’t treat me different from you

I also wish to go in the same school as you 
Be your friend, see nothing different from you
I wish you not to see me different to you 
We are of a same kind ‪#‎Human‬#

Date me not because you have no one 
But because you have a desire to build a home with me
Don’t date me because those that felt the warmth of our heart 
Tell you we are one of a kind
Don’t date me for your sexual desire 
But date me because you want me to be your queen

Don’t call me names 
Call me by my real name Mary
See no wrong in me 
But the human you and I

Protect me from does who use our bones 
To create voodoo 
To enrich themselves and kill others
Protect me as you sister and lover

Protect me from those that rape us 
Because they enjoy the sexual pleasure that come with our kind
It is said Albinos have enjoyable punani
Protect me from those that wish to destroy me
I am human just like all humans
Cry when in pain
Cry when they tease me of my skin
Cry when they humiliate me in public by looking at me differently from everyone
I am human just like you
I am an Albino

Proud of my parent not to dump me in a bin to die
Just because I am an albino

Umhlaziyi Ozimele
Sandile Mngadi