A black woman's life

Stripped of dignity A refusal of warmth Forced palatability A black woman's life A spectacle to society Our pain Comedy Silence our only company In a world that chooses to ignore Our words speak with wisdom They choose to echo Educated and intellectual Our voices heed with warning Our weakness our instinct to nurture Despite their instinct to murder We want the world to progress Yet their hate prevents them to listen Their prejudice leads to regression A painful reminder that we don't matter Even if we are right, even if we are being helpful Our tendency to water until It overflows Pouring our all until we have no more We are the givers of life The beginning of it all But when we call for help We are left all alone The burdens of life Fall onto our shoulders The world's problems Left for us to solve You claim we are to blame that we are the cause Used us to clean messes that were never ours just yours Our life hard Our spirits strong But don't mistake strength With a lack of emotions We are forced into this life left with no choice But you already know this because you don't even see us as human Just something to control and make palatable Unless your black and a woman You dont get a say on our struggles We dont need you to dictate our emotions Just listen when we call Don't throw stereotypes around not knowing the damage it can cause We are not superhuman We can't do it all We are not your mother's Or even disposable We are not objects to be used then to be stored We are the blueprint, we are unforgettable We have hung up our capes and we are not your heroes We will not be a mattress to catch you when you fall You can't eat your cake and still have it all Your ignorance is not welcome here to abuse no more