'beautiful black woman' BlackGirlMagic
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It's like a shadow.
Falling beside me, but not on me.
Or in me.
"You're not mixed?"
They ask with a questioning smile on their face.
A young girl from the Southside
Where cats shoot dice
In the sky Gwendolyn cools the air
Smog separates the city
These rich folks don’t come round ‘here
The city of the violet
Heart of the violence
Lemme tell y'all a story
About how the rhythm of a young girls
heart beat trembled at her feet.
In honor of the month that is hushed on school speakers
Torn out of the history books
Dumbed down with empty proclamations of peace
And ignored like white privilege in a country club
All I wanted to do was write
But in a world of hate
I could barely get a sentence out
My aesthetics betrayed me
All I wanted to do was write
But in a world of hate
I could barely get a sentence out
My aesthetics betrayed me
