BlackandBeautiful

1

Had it been you were big and busty

Maybe I’d have thought

I tripped for your breasts and hips.

And let’s say you were very fair

I could have reasoned

It was just that. But… oh my, my! What spell,

What powerful spell it is that has completely

Charmed me in your black hair!

What powerful spell it is that has utterly

Captivated me in your beautiful heart!

Goodness me, when I look,

Just gaze at those natural curls—

Oh baby, you can’t be real!

Black-and-Beautiful, please tell me what spell

you’ve won my heart with! O Cute-and-Lovely!

2

When I steal a glance at you,

I see cuteness like a girl’s;

I see goodness like that of a goddess;

I see beauty, beauty like an African queen’s!

When I steal a glance at you,

I see thrice of you at once!

Now look back in my eyes,

And see you in them!

O rest your ear against my heartbeats,

And hear me in them!

And now that I look in your eyes

And stroke through your hairs

I still feel the power in them,

In your beauty, in your character

That have so drawn

My eyes and my heart after you …

And to you!

Kayode Taiwo Olla