What happens when a young black girl loses herself before she’s lived,
Desperate for validation and self-gratification that she begins to live a lie,
A life that wasn’t meant for her,
We focus so much on them seeing themselves through our own eyes not realizing we are the first to demonize,
What happens when we take their spirituality calculated into falsities and make it into a routine, We stole their glow before they were even a teen,
What happens when we take their sexuality as a formality of being a pleasing woman instead of pleasing the inner being she was created to be,
What happens when we beat the joy out of her smile,
Belittle her visions into a dream,
Start making her believe that she was never a queen and the only thing she’ll ever be good for is getting on her knees,
What happens when she stops believing,
What happens when we divide black women so much that even mother and daughters are at war.
What happens is we have black girl’s victim blaming when they are a victim themselves,
We have girls who allow so many men to have access to their bodies they’ve lost count,
We have girls who become too independent they forget how to love,
We have girls who hurt so much they cut,
We have girls whose only ideation is suicide.
What happens when,
What happens when,
What happens when,
She gives up and no one helps her up,
Cause while we sit and await the inevitable pain a black man will bestow upon her,
It started from the black woman who never gave a fuck
What happens when you realize she is you
