Black

Poet:  Ken Jordan
Poem:  Black
Edited by:  Sparkle Jordan
written:  September/1986

black black black

My skin is black

God created me
what I am -

Black/Strong
heart and soul -

Blacker than black
black as a moonless sky


black as midnight - 
black as Indigo -  
black as the Nile - 

I'm proud to be 
what
God made me -

black black black

My talk is black
My walk is black
My America, is black

Everything I do, 
I do it black -

Black roots grow deep -
My family is black -

Africa black -

Congo black
Ethiopia black
Zulu black -

Blacker than black

black as midnight - 
black as Indigo - 
black as the Nile - 

black black black

I'll be black until 
the Ebony Universe,
disappears -

Yes,
black is what I am -
Blacker than black

Obsidian black

black as midnight - 
black as Indigo - 
black as the Nile - 

BLACK!

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