POETRY

African Women your Love is from Mother Nature

I can smell the clean fresh air of Mother Nature Oh I have never seen such a beautiful structure You walk miles away to fetch water from the river

And I guess that is how you kept in shape, yes with Mother Nature

This is an African lady smiling like I wasn’t sure

But in that smile I question if it is pure

How could you smile for centuries but slavery robbed you of your life?

It took your man into the mines and made him dig gold for the white master

I thought that was disaster and you will not smile. But no you went on and smiled

You went on after your man into the mines. Those swine’s destroyed your family and mine

They turned you into a prostitute and blamed you for transporting diseases

But no you remained composed and yes you smiled

As if that was not enough, they made you to clean their houses. Leaving behind your family and your values.

But you still served the madam with a pretty smile With your mind a mile away thinking of the famine But you still smiled just like Mother Nature Strutting your beautiful structure

They saw that you happy and they wanted your man to carry a dompass. When he fought back, they sent him to prison

And you were sjamboked for refusing to carry a dompass demanding

That they release your man out from prison

But still you smiled like flowing stream after a heavy downfall.

Yes in isolation you stood tall making sure your children don’t fall

But what I don’t understand is that you still smiled.

With that little education you still maintained that beautiful structure

That they try so had to copy with all those unnatural plastic surgery stuff

‘He’ asked himself what is it ‘he’ must do to get through to you and break you. Oh yes you resist everything and yes you want your man.

So ‘he’ gives you your man but ‘he’ knows that your man is weak

And he will use him to break you.

‘He’ gives him freedom but confuses him with western ideology

Then your man claims the glory but oh no, he is now involved in orgies

He confuses polygamy, monogamy, pornography, geography

That he loses his mind and focus on his biography

Your man sells you to ‘he’ and yes he rapes you, abuses you, kicks you, and punches you

But no you smile and put the blame on capitalism

He gives you the deadly virus but still refuses to give you the love you need

He puts you out of the decision making body but claims that you have equal rights

But you still remain composed and smile even if he is running around with your niece

African women your love is from Mother Nature.