MELANIN (Poetry)

Who taught you to hate your dark skin baby it’s beautiful.

You’re a melanin Queen with the dark flowing hair,

Your Afro upright,

Chitenge rapped tight, covering the beads around your waist,

And when you wiggle it oh my word, Black is beautiful

A pillar of a household, it’s in your nature to nurture,

No matter how old,

Raise you baby into a man and when he gets home,

Take care of your man like a baby,

Baby!

Who taught you to hate your dark skin?

Bleaching and using so you can have lighter skin,

Yet your grandparents were beaten and used by those of a lighter skin,

It’s all there in the history books,

But it’s pretty sad how history looks, down on you,

As it paints a picture so bad,

You’d think I drew it with my left hand,

K500 on Mac powder and foundation to cover up the scars on your face,

Scars that tell a triumphant story of your struggle,

So I struggle to understand how you can stand there

And let these silly boys undervalue you,

Because given a choice between her, her and her?

Baby I’d marry you,

So tell me,

Who told you to hate your dark skin? Is he here?

Pantu even with your skin as dark as night

You still brighten up every room that you enter,

So rather than take a seat, here,

Take your place as a true African Queen,

You’re majestic when you walk, I am at your mercy when you talk,

Simply flawless from head to toe,

I’m not trying to score with you baby but I really hate to goal,

And leave that defence behind looking on point on fleek, on nanikane.

Elo who here can match your beauty, point please,

Bushe ninani bane

Who taught you to hate your dark skin?

Take that wig off and let me see that mukule notukuti,

And if a baddie comes through with Peruvian hair,

Donti ukutina please napapata, just smile,

You’re too pretty not to,

You’re one of a kind, and you’re kind hearted

The type that will kindly decline to lay with an older man,

Because you know his lines are lies that he lays down,

So he can lay with you,

You’re an A plus, eeeh plus,

You remain down to earth, humble

And you ain’t never been down to F,

So keep your head up and smile through the B.S

P.S: I hope you learn to love your dark skin.