"Fly Away Sleeping" by Kola Boof

I Will Kill God

before I see my Black Babies dead.
Black men and White men
and those toxic White bitches
who called me sister,
do not understand.

They are God.

I would be happy to slit their throats--to
crush their evil heads in the toilet.
To place my babies on my pretty
brown back
And sail into the sunset.

I would be like a goddess.
I would be nappy and smiling.
I would be tall and dark as charcoal.
I would be singing.
I would be free.

Free at last.

To make up my own prayers.

*Taken from the classic book, "Nile River Woman"

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