POEM: ...AND RAISE BEAUTY

 

…AND RAISE BEAUTY TO

ANOTHER LEVEL OF SWEETNESS

 

You are a fresh flower

bursting boldly

into a hard world

with a softness

strong as steel

 

Reaching for sunlight

you raise yourself

up from down under

out of the degrading dirt

society has so routinely

dumped on women,

you have transformed

manure, muck and mire

into fertilizer

 

Spring self assertedly

past winter weather

you bring a sweet fragrant

incense and inspiration

into musty places

stale with the stuffiness

of misogynic sexist

status quos

 

You blossom, you bloom

you expand and grow

raising beauty

to a bedazzling higher

and healthier level of

light, life and love

 

Grow on Black rose

Black woman grow on!

 

—kalamu ya salaam