A Black Woman's Love
Graphic by Alexa Marie (@aleexamarie)
Photographer of images: @deunivory
Tell me you love me
the same way you love her-
or even more.
Show me how you appreciate
my lips, my voice and my skin
without mentioning hers
or, being nostalgic about her golden silky hair.
I will never be her, but I am like you:
Kissed by the sun,
Darker than night,
Built with strength and joy.
I love you and gave you my heart,
fiercely bleeding whilst standing next to you.
Though through it all your eyes were hypnotized
by her porcelain body.
I swallowed the dust, mockery and grief
patiently waiting for you to love me the same way I love
you.
She's gone.
She enjoyed your fruit, ignoring your essence.
Meanwhile,
You made my skin a shadow.
Vilifying this brown,
Walking all over it, making it soil.
Flowers grew out-
giving me the strength and the joy to make my life a
spring
without you.
Graphic by Alexa Marie (@aleexamarie)
Photographer of images: @deunivory
By Audrèe Nack
IG: @missnackk
Edited by Makella Ama
Graphics by Alexa Marie (IG: @aleexamarie)