I am an African Woman

Don’t look now
I’m fading away
Into the gray of my mornings
Or the blues of every night
Is it that my nails
- keep breaking
Or maybe the corn
- on my second little piggy
Things keep popping out
- on my face
  - or
- of my life
It seems no matter how
I try I become more difficult
- to hold
I am not an easy woman
- to want
They have asked
- the psychiatrists . . . psychologists . . . politicians and social workers
What this decade will be
- known for
There is no doubt . . . it is
- loneliness
By Nikki Giovani.

Photo Credit: Woman crosses the street in Eldoret

Posted on February 9th, 2010

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