I Am An African Woman, Earth's First Song
I Am African, I Am Beautiful,
I am Earth's first song
Her first fruit
Firstborn that bears her burden
The Blueprint of Womanhood
Laid bare on her undulating landscape
Charcoal black and chocolate browns
Fistful of tight-knit curly hair
Not to be recreated anywhere else
Bosom full and plump
Made to feed earth's many children
I am the African woman
The strength and soul
Of ancestral warriors
With a heart that
Stretches beyond the
Niger, Nile, and Zambezi
A well of knowledge deeper than the Congo river
I am Earth's firstborn
Who stays up at night weeping for her children
My secret tears, succor for the souls of the oppressed
@copyright Ngozichi Omekara December 10, 2012
I am Earth's first song
Her first fruit
Firstborn that bears her burden
The Blueprint of Womanhood
Laid bare on her undulating landscape
Charcoal black and chocolate browns
Fistful of tight-knit curly hair
Not to be recreated anywhere else
Bosom full and plump
Made to feed earth's many children
I am the African woman
The strength and soul
Of ancestral warriors
With a heart that
Stretches beyond the
Niger, Nile, and Zambezi
A well of knowledge deeper than the Congo river
I am Earth's firstborn
Who stays up at night weeping for her children
My secret tears, succor for the souls of the oppressed
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