The Five Things I Will Tell A Black Lady Poem by Kumi William Dubois Yaw Sakyi

Can you recall
Those days I stood tall?
In the mist of timid boys
On the thick tall walls of fears?
Yes… I know you do

For every wink you blink
Has a trillion words that it brings
Even when I siphon a gallon of water I
still feel the need to drink

Go, Dont go, She will insult you, boys
will laugh at you, the girls will tease
you
All these voices in monotony
Like my ringing tone “hidding my
heart away”
Keeps on resounding in my ear drums
like the fontomfrom and Atumpan
drums

So the day I muster courage
I will paint your portraits in the belly
of my palms
In my right hand will be when you
smile like the morning sun

My left hand will be when the wind
blows your natural hair to the back of
your ear like Shilpa Shetty
In a hindu movie
I will tell you five simple things

1. I dedicate the Solomonic songs of
romantic love and wisdom to you

2. No need to wake up early
To make me breakfast on our first
date, I will serve you in bed… I mean
serve it in bed early in the morning…
Dont get it twisted… I mean a
breakfast

3. I would not mind if you will not go
all natural on your hair
But I will fast for your real african
beauty upgraded to it latest version
like an andriod 4.4 Kitkat

4. I would not mind if you will not slap
me for my last thing am about to
say….

I have had crushes,
Vehicular crushes
Head crushes
Love Crushes

But a crush on you is like life without
Christ, which is crissis

Like a life on the deserts of Egypt but
far away from River Nile, which is dryness

Like an eyeball without a pupil, which
is blindness

Like a mentally challenged, locally
acclaimed, which is madness

Like days with ECG, which is lightless

Like A life with Satan which is
Darkness

Be not my dream Black lady nomore
Take my hand
Lets walk this road together
And lets live together forever..
My fifth thing is

5.Be my Lady