The Beauty of Black Love

The Beauty of Black Love

America do you want to know how to make America great?

Then respect the beauty of black love again

With the forces of revolutionary resilience

Proceed in taking the hand of the badgered black man

Watching the locking on to his long locks with the power fist

Of his black woman’s softened wrists

America do you want to know how to make America great?

Then respect the beauty of black love again

Consider ways to kiss the deflated chests of the very women

Whose breast became the wet nurse for privileged nose bleeders named, John, Steve, and Dear old Donald J.

Black women surviving rape from angry white men touching her with his tortured hate

America do you want to know how to make America great?

Then respect the beauty of black love again

Exact executive orders that peril the emancipation of provisional hearts

Mocked by menacing fools while their feet dangle from underneath the covers of your rancid mark

America do you want to know how to make America great?

Then respect the beauty of black love again

Sit at the table of former slave’s sons and daughters, cousins, and nephews

And listen to their black love spill over hot tea and biscuits

Sip the warm soup made from the stoves of brown heated

Soul Love;

Take a seat at black Moses’s table be the chair that deciphers the pillow talk of black folk

Sweetly say thank you to the parents of Treyvon Martin

For showing this world another picture of black love

Before Barack and Michelle Obama this indeed existed

Grandpa’s fanning at big mama’s grave

Big mama serving up swift words of knowledge

From the history of her “Negro” lips

Blowing kisses of unreserved joy

Gifting property plowed from the dirty feet of babies with made up last names

These same babies whence we call “grown ass” men and women now know how to make black love on front porches like their parents once did

Listening to storytellers forging songs by whistling in the air to deaf dogs

Sniffing their wet noses to the ground looking for black girls who left hand fist pump from the weight of her black daddy’s unbought pride

America do you want to know how to make America great?