Alair Winter 2019 | Page 20

Poems

by: logidula_na

White Love means nothing: An Ode to Black

I let go of my expectations.

It took a moment…

I saw myself in you,

(the rope)

It wasn’t love at first sight,

I just knew you

(the rope tightened)

Cliche? no

There was a peace

The language of English,

inadequate to comprehend.

It was black,

It was intense,

Innate… true.

(your soul,

towering in a sea of others,

tied to our rope

I moved closer,

you were familiar)

A language of spirit,

two souls reunite

Ancestral greetings,

Black man black woman.

It’s not love,

It’s in his actions

in his tone

his presence

soul. us. one.

Natache Iilonga