Three
She is all about acrylic and anime
Bringing blessings
Banishing bad vibes
Belly full of bad jokes
And cheap wine
Always gathering
Always collaborating
Crafting comedy
Over brunch and beats
Contradicting conjurors of lies
That say Black girls are
Drama
Dramatic
Dragging each other
No
Exaggerated tales as
All fire
Fist fighting
Grabbing glasses of water to hurl and all
Hurt inside
No
Told to smile
Why?
As if man's mere presence is inspiration
Told her mere intonation is an insult
Told keep quiet
Kneel and kill your spirit
She resists
Fights to kneed the knowledge
That will lend to the lengthening of her life
She is learning to love the less in her
And the more
Finding magic in her melanin
Meditating on mothers of movements that
Net and knot themselves in her DNA
She negates the negative narratives
Oscillating outside and within
Her potent potential is
Unquantifiable
Realizing reality is shaped
By the world that she decides to create
She is sensitive and she is strong
Her sacredness will no longer be sacrificed
To save those who only seek to take
She can take off her crown
And throwdown
Thinks of her heart as a talisman
An uncut diamond used to being under a microscope
Unabashedly unique and unalterable
She is
She is ultraviolet light
Visions vast and piercing
A woman wide world wandering
A woman withholding nothing
Learning to expect all things
And x out anything
That doesn't yield her happiness
Black girls with a zest for life
Reaching past their dreams to
Grasp their destiny
Black girls are the light
All the rest are fireflies
Black girl
Black girl
You are
Everything