bounce

I come from women

I come from women

I come from strong women

Been thru the storm women

Heroin/horse/Demerol y’all

Is a mutha

I come from café women

Loud women

Beer drinkin’ women

I come from sad women

Broken-hearted women

I come from cotton field women

Hot water cornbread women

I come from runaway slave women

Mammy/jezebel/brave women

I come from ignorant women confused women

Natural women

Western women

Pretty women

Sexy women

I come from single mother women

Suffering women

I come from my women, my sistas…

I come from u

I come from women

Black power/ungowa women

I come from deep women

Wise women/hard women

And not-so-smart women

Becuz being smart was not a part

Of the women I come from

I come from women

I come from beautiful women

Co-dependent women/ganga addicted women

Simple women

Sleeping, slumbering women

I come from awakened women

Spirit filled women

Living water wanting women

I come from wailing women

Tea cake/7 up cake baking women

I come from women who marched

Women who struggled

Women who fought and were bought

Laid and prayed

Women who healed and kneeled

Weeping for u and for me

My sistas, I come from u

And u from me

I come from women

keep shootin’ til u get it straight

til u get it right

so high…high…high

u fly right into yo’self

back into love

…and I give up,

not on you, but on me…

holdin’ on much too long

to that monkey on our backs

the one that’s got u all cracked up

the one that got me all jacked up

and stale

I’m tired, aren’t u?

Binging again…

Existing in a paradox

Of go, stop, rock steady

Yes, no…eyes wide shut

In a not quite existence

Shootin’ half cocked

…not

I gotta move

But I’m here…always

If u ever wanna know

Who’s lovin’ u…it’s us and Him

Love ya, keep straight shootin’

Til u fly back home

I’m lettin’ go

This one be… bounce(able)