Familiar Stranger
I just wanna know…..I just wanna know how to love a familiar stranger
Someone who I know but then I don’t….for my heart is a clear and present danger
I’ve only known you for 21 minutes
Yet you claim you love me and you beg for forgiveness
But….you don’t know me
Hell….you call the way you treated me love?
You left me destitute of….
You were neglectful of….
Am I unworthy of?
Perhaps undeserving of?
Is that is that what you call loving me?
I have the odds of the world stacked up against me to the third degree
Black Woman Detainee
I am held in custody of the chains of my ancestor’s past the chains of my past
Is it a curse that can not be unsurpassed?
The curse of fatherlessness?
The curse of hopelessness?
I just wanna know…..I just wanna know how to love a familiar stranger
Someone who I know but then I don’t…for my heart is a clear and present danger
The familiar stranger who laid with my mother 21 years ago
I guess I’ll start with a simple hello…