Fatal Myth

inspired by Tanzania Albinos Murdered or Raped as AIDS Cure

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/05/tanzania-albinos-murdered_n_857962.html

Skin light as a lamb’s fleece,

Whiter than sharp teeth,

Or goat’s milk,

Pale as a chicken’s egg,

Or purity,

Like bone bleached in sun.

Too light for burning rays

They used to taunt me.

Now I’m the hunted,

Witch doctor's magical cure,

Cursed by skin of alabaster.