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brewritesworld · 4 years

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For Black Girls Who’ve Written Their Mothers Suicide Letters

she gon’ tell you you’re crazy for letting a man ruin you

she gon’ tell you that your generation don’t know how to keep no man

she gon’ tell you that suicide ain’t going get you into heaven

she gon’ tell you to pray it away

even tho the sanctuary hasn’t swept her into a holy ghost all your life

she gon’ tell you that ya ass shouldn’t have been messing with him anyway

she gon’ tell you that you therapy is for crazy folk

and that you is crazy

and that this conversation better not leave her house

cause in black families we pass down secrets like they recipes

somebody please pass the black eyed peas

that and the lord’s house are the only bowls of prosperity

Black girls, we aren’t allowed to be sad

so when depression turns

loud and angry

then we’re doing it right

following in our mothers

shrink-herself-to-be-loved-by-a-man

footsteps

they expect us to close our throats

when all we can do is scream

although you’ve been told all of your life that you’re her twin

the way she loved you

in scorn

is no reflection of you

cause oh what a lil wine,

candles

and moonlight can do

Black Girl Therapy

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