it's friiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiday!!

i'm too lazy to compose anything meaningful today, so i thought i'd share one of my favorite poems. it's by mari evans. have a great weekend. hopefully i'll find something productive to do this weekend to prevent me from sitting around and blogging (i can't believe i just used that as a verb).

I am a Black Woman


I am a black woman
the music of my song
some sweet arpeggio of tears
is written in a minor key
and I
can be heard humming in the night
Can be heard
humming
in the night

I saw my mate leap screaming to the sea
and I/with these hands/cupped the lifebreath
from my issue in the canebrake
I lost Nat's swinging body in a rain of tears
and heard my son scream all the way from Anzio
for Peace he never knew....I
learned Da Nang and Pork Chop Hill
in anguish
Now my nostrils know the gas
and these trigger tire/d fingers
seek the softness in my warrior's beard

I am a black womantall as a cypress
strong
beyond all definition still
defying place
and time
and circumstance
assailed
impervious
indestructible
Lookon me and be
renewed