Gifted comes in two parts,
the first being a gift.
The gift, you are the gift.
Gift of being born, of this melanin.
Constructed and restructured,
for greatness.
Greatness that is well put together,
like artwork.
Facial features that look like
black gold pearls that glisten in the sun.
Like the waves that drowned your soul,
and refreshed your chiseled frame.
The sand with golden reflection,
of footprints that make their mark
from generation to generation.
Only if it can be framed.
Framed to remember, the long walks
and march.
Framed to remember, that this
melanin is strength and courage,
it cannot break, because
we are gifted.
Gifted like paints splashed on canvas.
that tells a story of freedom, love,
color, new beginnings.
Gifted is mindset to write, books,
poetry, essays, prose.
Gifted that perseveres, the strong will
to keep climbing that mountain,
with pumping hearts.
Blood that pump through veins
underneath thick skin, that sweats,
pores open to a journey,
to a different place and time of victory.
Gifted, a six-letter word meaning triumph,
success, winner, achiever, oh
don’t forget a dreamer.
In that there’s a believer.
