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.