When men give you wings
(In Memory of Louis Lindsay)
(men as gatekeepers of
patriarchy….police your body, curtail your mind, restrict agency, confine you
to reproductive citizen for the state)
When men
give you wings you can surely not but fly
I mean
fairy fly
Imaginary
I can’t believe fly
I mean
supercatgerflagerlisticflasticflyblackgirlmagicfly
YET
THERE ARE SOME WHO shit (excrete) entitlement so stink
you have
to eak a different route to rise
When men
give you wings to fly you smile through tears
And
blast easy through storms stand injustice in the face badass like a
hurricanebreezekindafly
I mean
ibelieveicanflyibeliveicantouchthescky…..kindoffly
Yet
there those who shit entitlement rotten
You have
to cry
When men
give you wings you burst thru a thousand skies
And
voice the terrible woes into victories
transform
political venom into legislative love
Move
indebted thunder to sustainable stars
Yet
there are some who shit the mud of mean
Not even
an inch yuh likl bitch
You have
to oops make a dodge duck a block chant more than a psalm a day
And make
your peace
Because
you still going to fly
When men
give you wings
You
become a child buss out naturally because there was no gate
Oh woman
of no mental doors
Purposeful
march because this space is already yours
Ancestors
got your back stand rising rooted high wingspan wide
Goddess
soaring whistling wind in the still fighting dust of other men wondering what
just happened.
Copyright 2016 Taitu Heron
Reprinted with permission.
