“Her Hair”
“How does she pay for that”
It’s my hair
It grows out of my head
I didn’t buy it
I grew it
All my life I have
“Why does she pay to go to a salon”
I never have
In 46 years
I’ve never been
I do my own hair
I always have
That’s the way it’s always been
“Are you sure, it looks really good”
Like I don’t know me
My own head
My own hair
My own body
Honestly
Why TF do you care?
“If you’re poor your money
should go elsewhere”
I have no income
I’m not poor
I am devastated
By people with your kind of
distorted thinking
You’re sitting around looking
at superficial things
Thinking you know me
Thinking you see me
Instead of looking at the fact that
I AM A HUMAN BEING
It’s obvious to me
That you don’t care about
my humanity
It’s blatantly obvious
To anyone who chooses to see
You don’t give AF about
my life
Or life at all
You care only about proving
yourself “right”
and me
unworthy
All my life I’ve dealt with this
BS after BS
You can’t see
because you can’t get past
your bias
or your greed
Your lust for power
so full of jealousy and conceit
Yes
I have beautiful hair
I was born with this blessing
Does that mean I shouldn’t
be able to eat
Because you think
I deserve to suffer
over your own ignorance
and inability
SMH
So tired of ignorant defenses
Your issues should never be
my suffering
Yet all my life
that’s how it has been
Because xenophobes fear
accountability
“She’s lying”
You people say
About what
Things you concocted
in your own head
GTFOH
My life is not your projection
Therefore I will not live
you dehumanization
EVOLVE ALREADY
Deal with what’s in
YOUR head
Stop scapegoating me
for what your own insecurity
and weakness
can’t fathom
Because instead of you focusing
on your healing
you’re too busy
attacking me
for your own sick
fantasies
I’m not your whipping post
I’m not your slave
I AM ME
Always have been
Always will be
Don’t hate because I expose
your deceit
Get help for yourself
so that you aren’t so
obsessed with me
Trying to block my shine
Trying to be an obstacle
To what blessings are bestowed
upon me
I will always tell the truth
I’ve been abused too long
I won’t go back into
being muted
locked in a dungeon
chained, raped, kept hostage
for sick men to breed
I won’t go back into a box
Because you people are afraid
of human beings
I won’t go into any dark night
Because you think my community
belongs in a dead red sea
Part The Waters
O Lord
SET THE CAPTIVES FREE
Exodus for ALL of us
We don’t subscribe to
enslavement or fabricated
humanity
I Am She
Of course my mane flows
Shiny and full of waves
I Am Danielle
My name is what it means
I Shall
Because
Divine willed it
So Let It Be
