#2/2 today.... this one's based off of stories my grandparents have told me about their childhoods haha
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sweat soaked
skin
and sweat stained
clothes
bright yellows
oranges
blues
greens
vermilion
indigo
dark hair
and darker
eyes
skin
tanned from
the sun
yet smooth
wrists
adorned
in golden
bangles
rings
on fingers
and on
toes
weary smiles
as dust
kicked up
by cars
fills the
roads
smog
livestock
roaming
as if the
world is their
home
because
it is
papers
tossed out of
windows
to goats
banana skins
stripped
completely
of their flavor
spices
aromas
sandalwood
dark henna
in flowering
designs
over wrists
fingers
hands
feet
there is
beauty
in culture
though it took me
too long
to realize it
there is beauty
in the working
hands
and embroidered
cloth
and the people
that fill the towns
and villages
they are their own
little world
and they are
proud
of it