at twenty six (everything needs fixing) the toilet and sink your ego and clock your kitchen cabinets and heels your windows and doors the white walls need painting… the floor needs mopping your soul needs cleansing you need new towels and tooth brush you need new sweethearts you need a first aid box with bandages …
my skin is black my thighs are inviting my intelligent is flirty my pen is crazy my sanity is tricky my desires are silly baby of all the poems i wrote you were my favorite line.
for a long time i had been looking into mirrors wrong mirrors right mirrors broken: almost mended / mirrors i kept seeing my reflections through many eyes all at the same time and none of them ever was my own some mirrors/i am sweet some mirrors/i am cold some mirrors /i am the priest burning …
mecca road/ but this road do not lead to salv+tion i am only one of my kind something must hold my hands to keep me from falling college of medical sciences/ course mates are not friends so when your lecturer asks you “where is your friend?” say to him “the lady that sat next to …
you are well come here to host this body not for tonight but for many sun and moon to come you are well come here to feel the monthly pains where you bleed but not to death because you are a goddess you are well come here to feel …
the woman today she told me your kind of love was the walking type.… i didn’t just stumble and fall i didn’t just lose my balance momentarily to think I was not watching i took steps counted each rhythm see how it took time for my heart to get familiar with your smile the way …
i am standing here i am clapping for you you have been much stronger to get here to use your voice to admit your own vulnerability you will find the way only trust you will and hey!!! it’s so okay to get depressed walk into your own healing at your own pace it won’t kill …
for no black girl/ will ever hate the colour of her skin for to be a black girl is not a movement it is not a cry for attention it is not even a song it is not a discrimination against fairness no! it is not it is a birth right sacred holy it chooses …
