Ten Shades Women
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1. My beauty sheds lightning all over the soundtrack of New York
The way my body sways as I walk
The talk my mind provides to my lips
My hips dipped and nourished in a jar of gold ensembles
2. I am moon
New and cold
Yet worth every bit of winter
That murder the symphony of their skin after the last leaf of fall
I love that
The sun sets just to see me awaken
I cannot be mistaken
3. Black greatness
Indeed
It's shown and delivered at the surface of my plateaued skin
Every in between of my shine underlines the rise of a brand new universe
A brand new miracle
A whole new nation
Dances in the heaven of my sky
4. My bones
Home to fine dined scriptures
Are the best part of me
They show
That even though words may break and scratch
They go out their way to attack
I remain America after the pain
5. I always had gold mining at the set of my smile
And mineral tinted soul drawn by the Picasso palms of god
They may define me with pacified judgment
But I am not their idea of me
I am earth between day and night
Decorated in a thousand years of ancestors that hibernated your smile
I am not the humiliation of my back then history
I am the now
They speak of so unclearly
I'm late nights in the best cities that ever existed
Like Paris
With its Eiffel planted romance
Grand boulevard charm
Or Rome
With its beautiful squares
I am a masterpiece
Haiti's own
6. I am a man’s prayer when those nights play him lonely
The true whisper of a good women
And a good women never goes unheard
7. At age 16,
I faced fire and war in the same rib
That was the same day
I seen myself as queen and survivor liberating the same throne
8. My echoes do not go unheard
And my siren songs melt eyelids
And the ricochet of pain bow down to my name
9. At 12,
My mother taught me that mortal women
Can dance to such ugly addiction
And still make it out alright
The fight that wrote love letters across my chest
Had me smell of bravery
The love I owned for myself marked me as beautiful as sky
10. My flaws are see through
But I just see through these flaws
And see why I fall down history
As the greatest flawed women to breathe in gravity