This love,
pure and authentic love.
Deep and filling love.
Strong and uncontested love...
Began on the cusp of child and young woman.
A voice soothing the chinks and cracks of low self esteem,
the unprettiness of blackness and thighs with thickness.
Love encouraging my voice to sing along,
The skill was not there but the experience and relevance was strong.
This love, makes you always the reference point of love, break ups, make ups,
sisterhood, motherhood, womanhood, LIFE.
When the words have left me... shaken, feeling attempting to describe in the most succinct and poignant of ways.
You name and claim me...
Not knowing this journey that began, I do know that its sustained and has been sustained by this love.
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