What Do You See   When you look at me What do you see? Do you only look? At the outer shell Or do you look inside Where true beauty Dwells Do you look at my flaws? The lines and wrinkles On my skin Do you judge me? By the outside Or look deep Within Do you look at me? And judge me By the color of my skin Or do you get to know, me first See the person I am Within Do you look to see? What I have or what I own Do you judge me? For where I call Home If I was covered, In piercing and tattoos Would you turn, and walk away From me Would I scare? You If I had dirty hair And tattered clothes Would you look at me? And turn up Your nose If I were disabled Not the same as you Would you pity me? And treat me different Too If I were poor And from the wrong side Of the tracks Would you treat me different? Were you raised? Like that Are you the type of person? That judges others By what you first see The type that never, looks inside To see the real Beauty Prejudice is everywhere In this world were living in So many are judged By the color of their skin Think of all the pain We inflict When we judge another Without Looking within Some people were born Or have lost Their limbs Some were born Or have lost The ability to hear Some were born Or have lost their sight Are they to be treated different? Not the same as you and I Are we to pity them? Not look them in the eye That is not what they want Not what they want indeed They want and should be treated The same As you and me We should all be thankful For being who and what, We are No matter what we look like On the outside That is just a shell Look deep inside a person Where the true beauty lies The outsides just a shell That will fade With time By badmac © 2008 badmac (All rights reserved)

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