Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen by Inger Burnett-Zeigler

Author:Inger Burnett-Zeigler
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Amistad
Published: 2021-04-26T00:00:00+00:00

Vulnerability

somebody/ anybody

sing a black girl’s song

bring her out

to know herself

to know you

but sing her rhythms

carin/ struggle/ hard times

sing her song of life

she’s been dead so long

closed in silence so long

she doesn’t know the sound

of her own voice

her infinite beauty

she’s half-notes scattered

without rhythm/ no tune

sing her sighs

sing the song of her possibilities

sing a righteous gospel

let her be born

let her be born

& handled warmly.

NTOZAKE SHANGE, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf

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