blackboy
Black beauty
Black beast
Curly locks of pride
Greased glory
Americanized water down locks
Of entangled stories of
Slavery
Midnight drips
Of moonlight
Painted on your liquidated vaseline skin
Dripping in water
As you dip in the basin
Of our mothers Africa's
Body
And became one with
The rope that bounds your hand to your roots
Slaving over her curvaceous temple
Like a bull to slaughter
Offering offerings of love
Into the promised land
Honey iced lips
Dying to be tasted
Warm temperate love ready to be devoured in the mouth
Ebony breast
Carved diamonds
Wrapped in a dashiki
Her curly locks
Of pride
Of nature
Wrapped
In the
fabric
that is
Fabricated
And sewn
Together
With the pieces
Of the past and the present merged to form this charcoaled beauty
A crown
Of beauty
Adorned her head
She calls it a Hijab
And he calls her queen
And bows to her love