She is mixed race, I was told and I looked at her photo in wonder her beautiful complexion soft features framing a hypnotic smile But her beauty aside, what made me mesmerise was figuring the other half Two races in one face, two species hybridised to take human form If this beauty is one half sapiens what act of procreation led to this beautiful creation? A parent had mated willingly with another species. Was it a lonely male succumbed to horrible lonesome frustration and saw temptation in the eye of a beast? How could it be conceived? Perhaps in her genes she hides a tail like a mythical Grecian creation or is she a laboratory production a Frankenstein of genetic experimentation We are one race with many faces shades of skin dark and light ethnic diversity, geographic locations on species under gods, Homo sapiens. -Ciaran Burke