(2018)
Our worth minimized
to our body parts:
boobs
ass
vagina.
Our bodies as
Background silhouettes:
bitches
hoes
side chicks.
Our bodies objectified.
Sexualized.
Fuckable.
Our skin criminalized.
Too loud.
Too dark.
Too black.
We are told
we are always too much
and never enough.
We are fuckable
not lovable.
Handcuffed
to the double bind.
Trapped between
sexual choice and
justified violence.
No such thing
as an innocent
black girl.
Our blackness
Worthless until
white approved.
Our blackness
replicated on
whiteness.
Our blackness
our culture
craved
copied
appropriated.
Exploited.
...and
until this
narrative is changes
little black girls
will continue
growing up
being taught
that no matter what
they will only
be seen as fuckable
exploitable
dismissible.
Never respectable
Honorable
and lovable.
World
do
better.