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Deep Shade

In my skin

By Jamillah HankersonPublished 5 years ago 1 min read
Deep Shade
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They want to be inside of this black body

But don't want to wife this black body

Too ashamed to show off this black body

To everybody

No one cares what happens to her

She goes around the world being left unfulfilled

Sexually

Physically

Mentally

Frustrated

Never given the chance to express her black body

With the freedom for the message to be received

Without anybody taking offense

This deep shade has been bestowed upon me since I turned 5 years old

Never able to shed the experiences that come with this black body

In 30 years

I have been beaten

Violated

Hated

Loved

Cursed

Played with

Almost within the reach to taste salvation and pure love

For it to just slip through my fingers like sand

This black body of mine is tired

Of not feeling supported by my Kings

By my fellow Queens

We need eachother to thrive

To survive

To excel

Everybody

That has a black body

Is a deep shade and they don't even know it

We are a unit

We are all royal in one way or another

I am pleased to say that I am glowing into my Queendom

This deep shade

Almond eyes

Long legs

Curved spine

Are divine and precious

So at this point I must warn you

If anybody

Tries to test this black body

I just might catch a body

Be careful with what words come out of your body

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