COCOA BEAUTY

She is an art museum

An untidy display of labor and agony

Torn by the world’s inability to hold her

A quiet mystery

With eyes like billowing clouds

And Godliness woven in between her thighs

THICK and statured like royalty

Dangerously beautiful

She is a magician

With little mercy to spare

She’s been burned too many times self sacrificing

And extending grace

There is no room left in her for remorse

The world pressured her into vengeance

Now the time she knew gentleness is gone

And the hate she harbors rains

Even on the days when her heart is smiling