I alternate between pale skinned and burnished gold
In the summer I step over the sun’s threshold and melt into this copper-coloured skin
If I believed in reincarnation there would be a hundred different souls stuffed like silk inside me
If you slit me open I would spill these colourful contradicting identities like an oil slick
This difference dying the street all my shapeshifting tints
My blood would leave a stain shimmering the colour of fire opal, a chemical curiosity
Turn me over in your hand, watch me catch the light a thousand different ways, each facet of me blinding
I’m iridescent, brilliant
I’m like Argus with a thousand eyes
I’m like Shiva with a thousand forms
I’m like a djinn with a thousand stories
I'm overflowing
Abundant
Bounteous
I carry in me Vermillion, Indigo and Saffron
My bones are made of precious stones
This difference
My difference
Is worth its weight in Gold
City of Djinns was written by Leo Kalyan & Ryan Ashley.
City of Djinns was produced by Leo Kalyan.
Leo Kalyan released City of Djinns on Fri Nov 16 2018.