I Am Woman

I am dipped in burnt sage smudged with black skin Choctaw infused in my DNA Creole seasoning the roux in my bloodline I slow simmer for I am daughter of strong warrior Too powerful to give up cause surrender is an unfamiliar name to my lineage My hair kinks just right Bones and muscles designed to balance the world on my back I can birth a generation and feed it plentiful from the milk and honey that flows from my breast I smile warm sunshine my ancestors bathed in Old ***** spirituals vibrated from their vocal cords as blood from fingertips stained massa's cotton I walk upright with square shoulders head held high to God I've time traveled through lifetimes before me My black is not for barter and trade My woman is not to be negotiated You can't experience my being without being in my experience You take the sweet meat and leave the rotten Not knowing I turn rotten into witches brew that strengthens my inheritance the parts of me you wish pain for I'm not worried about you robbing me of my ethnicity You can desire to be like this woman but you could never be woman enough as me My black be God given The elements of my woman be everlasting You thief in night real well but what you know about me and my kind You can never represent the meaning of Full lips and wide hips made for bearing breathing life when all your lips and hips are good for Is delivering white lies 3/8/2020