For Love

I will be for love today Living just one life Through many incarnations And the sanctified souls who hold my head Will not ever allow me to forget The lessons of my past But when I don't remember And am pulled into the drama Of my bygone The great grandmother of my angel A crackled blackblue spirit Gently sticks me with her crown And I scream ouch Don't poke me like that I will lay my blues to rest today Swear never pick them up again Except to remind tomorrow The hours that I fell How I got this scar And why some Say all the right words Graduate from all the right schools But only get so far From today Not the contents of my wallet Or weight Not my relationship status or work My circumstances shall not decide my worth I am flawless Gaining understanding new On my journey at every turn I began in the mind of God Who is beginningless So I too am without a start The angels up in heaven The stars in the sky know it's true So if you don't too Then you are in the few Because I am alright with me With freckles Thick thighs Nappy hair and big feet And the grown woman way My breasts hang and booty pokes a little I am more than woman More than stories and poems Than Black and painter I am more than water and daughter I am not just chest and blood Bones and flesh I am that I am As all of you are me too And I am you So what is it to be Christian or Catholic Jewish or Muslim Science of mind or Bahai It doesn't even matter That some do not recognize The awesome outstanding of the Most High My religion is love So don't ask me what I am It should only be important to you That I exist at all If all the things around you Should quickly fade away Who would you believe in What would you stand for Today