The Poetic Word
Black Women’s Tears
“As if being a black woman is to be born as anything less than as a human.”
Was told that a black woman
Should not cry.
A sign for weakness that is a taboo in
This world, this age of time.
Was told that the tears trickling down
The cheeks of a melanated Nubian
Ancestry were crocodile tears.
As though everyone forgot the importance
Of civilization didn’t emerge and develop
From the crocodiles lurking in
Life giving waters of the mighty Nile.
Was told a black woman’s tears was
Crying out wolf.
As if other nations did not bring Destruction of empires with their lust,
Labeled as damsels in distress,
Bringing their knights in shining armour
To early demise,
Call it work hazards.
As if being a black woman is to be born
As anything less than as a human.
Being disrespected and mistreated,
But plead on bloody knees
When the final look before turning away
From the flames, ignited by
A tired black woman.
Labelled as angry black woman,
But the tears of black women are dismissed.
But when it’s too late,
The tears are finally understood as
Amazing Grace.