the narrative.

to be anger

bound

to be

unsettled

home

to feel

conditionally free

to live

(maybe)

to want.

(wanted)

and to stay wanting.

- the black narrative.

(even in 2015)

intention.

as

soft

as 

they

come. 

show and tell.

the language 

of becoming.  

be love.

we've got nothing to lose,

but have everything to gain. 

blackness.

some may try to cut us down, 

but this beauty prevails.

this beauty is immortal. 

- the beauty of blackness.

.

and where are our girls ?

and where are our girls ?

276 hopes
held captive.

276 dreams

crushed by merciless loins.

276 souls
we cannot get back

by the exchange of mere coins

are our girls back ? 

missing.

a year later,
the answer is in the silence.

africa.

puny little things,

missing from ourselves.

apart. 

fickle,

we are missing from each other.

separated.

- there is power in unity.