Dark, blue-black girl
with nappy pigtails sit alone.
Blue, sad dark girl
walks with hope and dreams.
Grown, blue black woman,
moans and screams
As the only black man
who ever loved her
Lay in a beautiful dark box,
trimmed in white.
Cool, cold, swing in her hip,
sex in her step,
With her hair as big
and bold as Africa.
Old, dark blue-black lady,
with gray pin
Up hair, sits alone,
singing out loud the blues
From a room as dark as midnight.
Gone, with her blue-black self,
happy at last
With her handsome dark blue
Black man who will
love her forever last.
~Paula Mixon~
