United Blackness

This womanness I give the world is bountiful

I still wonder what one may see as a threat

The black skin, loudmouth

Sense of self

Independence of mind

Teaching the girls power and confidence

As they threaten my rights to exist in autonomy 

Taking my uterus as the domain of a man

Threatening my life with their guns

I see their weakness of spirit and mind as

Something to squash between my fingers.

Fell them to their knees and make them beg

For existence in a new world

Where blackness is celebrated, revered, and respected.

We grow from the motherland 

Stronger from the injustices

Our genes remember the slave ships 

The Jim Crow foolishness

Our Ancestors remember and embed it in our bodies to never forget

Get stronger 

United State of Blackness

Weary from the killings of Grandmothers, sons, daughters

But fortitude is in each breath

Defeat is unacceptable.

Strength of character 

Sense of self

Continues the Queen’s legacy

The original Mother 

From the depths of Africa

Still bears children

Ready for equal footing 

Justice

Reverence

Life.