POEM BASED ON 'SHE IS THE OTHER HALF'

(Like my 'The Hairpin' also inspired by Tommie Lynn's recent poem and its accompanying picture.)


Their bodies posed, as if to dance,
Greatly symbolise their romance,
A straight black-white relationship
So warm for each other they strip.

She sees a man that God has made,
Not another “nigger” or “spade”,
While he entranced by the beauty
Of her skin, so smooth and ivory.

She tells him, "You're a better man
Than those who'd join the Ku Klux Klan,
That, coward fashion, hood in white
When they congregate, day or night."

They live in emancipation
From bars of colour and station.
Nothing to hide, nothing to bind;
For in each other love they find.

Her foot between his feet shows she
At ease in his territory.
The bunned straight hair upon her head
Will wait to be released in bed.