Tearless

As my fellow black people where enslaved and picking cottons,

I have been in my grave picking out condoms,

I’m not ashamed that I’m a prostitute,

At least that’s what I’m branded by those who don’t appreciate me nude.

Well, this didn’t just start for fun,

It’s neither a thing that I had to learn,

If asked I’d probably be a nun,

But hey I have to feed my son.

No one appreciates me,

I was raped and threatened not to say a word,

I gathered courage to tell my father,

As a girl, I was referred to my mother.

I was raped repeatedly,

I got used to it immediately,

This was now my reality,

Of men who carelessly abused my fertility.

Now I do this for a pay,

To the at least I appreciate myself each day,

To my kid I’m the bright light in the sky,

The one that brightens our dark ways.

All he knows is that I work late,

I work for the state,

I’m that mum that’s great,

With him as my only man and every day date.

Call me careless,

I call myself fearless,

Doing that’s termed shameless,

By a community that left me helpless,

Being of a gender that isn’t shown fairness.

Eclipse

The rays of the sunlight penetrate through my bedroom window,

This is my best moments of the morning,

The rays lifts my eye lids with a bloody view the lids,

A smile is never difficult when all this natural beauty touches me at dawn.

I press the remote to a calmly comforting music,

Suddenly an eclipse on my view,

I have only seen but few,

Maybe one,

But this one is different,

The curves that forms the eclipse are exponential,

Meandering on my sight,

From the top of her height,

I could say whatever she is wearing, must be tight.

From my side you could see her sway,

Tempting as it seemed lay on the bed still,

I rubbed my eyes to see if it’s real,

I couldn’t wait to get to know her,

Maybe I can invite her in,

We can have a thing,

Pure and passionate that’s not sin,

A kiss that relaxes her chin,

One that ignites her kin,

One that defines what I mean this is not a fling.

Well this is how I feel about my lady,

She wakes up early and completes my dreams,

She’s new in every way and day,

When she asks is am ever tired of her,

I calmly answer have I started being blind?