What would it take For a voice like mine to be heard For a body like mine to be respected For my potential to be seen In ignorance Society has defined who I’m supposed be An illusion as to what a woman truly means It’s barbaric if you ask me The world has grown foolish… Read on
Poetry / all
Friends, there is a miracle for praise to be! For the Goddess of Justice can finally see! With the balancing scales in her right hand, Will my people finally be able to stand? I think of all of my killed people, six feet under they are found, Justice not delivered to them, because of the… Read on
I dreamt of my Harlem Renaissance, but in elementary school, we split crayons. I moved, got into the bougie school Where they talk to me about struggle, but do they know strife? Have they been sung to sleep with the sounds of gunshots at night? Have they cried about policemen? Or wondered IF the bills… Read on
During winter a Flower bloomed White and pure just as you’d assume She was told to keep her nectar to herself As one day bees would be fighting over her stem The tulip’s birthday party is where it begun Everyone from the garden came around as one As the night began to approach and the… Read on
In the beginning We were together as one Living united under kingdoms Flourishing beneath our African sun Like the devil in disguise Greed conquered the motherland Gold melanin bodies Soon held captive by foreign command Across the seas And through the storms We sailed into a misery Lasting centuries long This hell on earth Birthed… Read on
I am the caramel drizzle I am the mocha found in your coffee I am the rich soil I am the cocoa bean found in the chocolate I AM THE DARKER BROTHER & SISTER that society criticizes I am the creator Lewis H. Latimer, Garrett Morgan, George Washington Carver, Elijah McCoy, Marie Van B. Brown,… Read on
