Ode to the Black Woman

Legacy Issue No 1

To the black woman who bares the strength to raise the world all while raising herself.

To your struggles.

To your pains.

To your givings —

The giving of all you’ve got.

To the ways you made ways

out of no ways .

To your sacrifice.

To your years of tears.

To your years of stress.

To your years of yes.

To your beauty and brilliance.

Resourcefulness.

Innovations.

Craft.

&

Creation.

To the endurance of your brokenness.

To your wide capacity to hold space.

To your capabilities and competence .

To your warm & tender

embrace.

To your flexibility—

Your span to be stretched.

Stretched far beyond the narrow minded boundaries they’ve set .

To the God in you.

To your surrender .

To your wisdom.

To your roots.

To your truths.

To your scars —

Your beautiful scars.

Your deeply cut wounds.

To your womb.

To your birth(s) & rebirth.

For you are continuously being born again.

Black woman.

To your body that bares.

To your nurture .

To your nature.

To your shape.

To your will.

To your grit.

To your grace.

To your healing.

Black woman.

An ode owed.

To you.

Black woman.

So bold —

So Honorable.

So true.

Black woman.

Black woman.

Black woman.

Thank You.