Black Women
Clam shelled pearls
Candied yam jewels
Sweet buttered corn
We be nutritious like spinach salad
Diamonds in the rough
Sometimes
Rotten as leftover meat
We be for better or for worst
But we be
We be what we need to be…want to be…when we have to be
We done been long overdue
Loving ourselves, hugging ourselves, believing in ourselves
We is pretty
We is smart
We is the nation builders
We is carriers of sweet seeds
We gon’ be greater than we ever was befor’
Because we gotta be
Like it or not…
That’s the way it be
Cause we done been…We done was….We done is
We goin’ be forever more
–by Vera Sims
Copyright © 2016 by Vera Sims