Instead she silently accepted
the white ones
no matter their harm to me
Until the Black boy
Then she rose
in fear and anger
Piercing her with blinding throat catching fear
that what would come was sunlight
Foreign to the darkness painted over her
heart’s door
where she expected us both to stay
That when he came she feared I’d find what
she never would
Sun
Warmth
Hard won
Hard kept
Unbroken
Life giving
Love