Black Rainbow.

There is something about here,
this darkness that gives no fear
I’ve been engulfed by it
and it seems in it I do fit
in this sphere, only warmth.
For my body is tiny, protected by this sheath
where am I, I ask
is there anything beyond, tsk.
It is this darkness that kissed me
here, it is proof for them to see
is there a world after, I ask
or am I alone here, tsk .

And then I was born
which made them blow their battle horn,
the woman, in whose dark warmth I laid
now lay dead, with a body as dark, now freed.
She brought me here, but left me alone,
I was left for the wrath, she was gone.
why do they, look at me,
in view, as though -nothing.
Was it because I was dark as the darkness that kissed me
like the blessed woman who brought me here for them to see
in kindness, they looked at me as a curse upon we.

It was better, the darkness I knew before
protected by the guardian from all this gore
‘blackamoor’ they called me, why,
‘unlucky’ I called myself, deathly shy,
they damned us,
oh hell, even we damned us-
we were all the same if it weren’t for the skin
we would’ve been a blessed kin
why do they hurt, sitting in the light
while we are hurt, sitting in the dark, deadened by fright.

Once, I’d seen it,
a bow, not used for the killing jit
but a rainbow, in a coloured fit
it was coloured, and several of them lit
it was like that, our world was,
with colours galore, in it me, a lass
but we were apart, grouped by hate
unlike, the bow, rainbow was bound by fate
it was the colours that made it handsome
but for us, colours made it troublesome,
oh, we’ve bit dust than them,
Oh, how we’ve walked amongst them.

Oh bless us oh thee,
may my lass, when she grows up, be free
oh, look after my mother, my guardian
tell her I’m well, in no pain,
may she live after death peacefully at least,
oh, thee, I couldn’t care nor need a feast,
but a world for my lass, when she hits her time
oh thee, bless my father, who, for squalor, never came
oh merciful, take me, in dependence the world
with colours anew, oh lord.
But still, the warm darkness I knew was better
than the dead haunting darkness I now fear.