2PM
Math Class:
Numbers tied tightly around my brain
Solving and unsolving themselves
I’d rather not be here
Plugging in numbers for Xs
And then having to graph their Ys
I’d really rather not be here.
I’d rather be somewhere
Maybe somewhere falling in love
But catching my breathe just to say I love you.
They say it only takes two to make the world go round
Kind like how it only takes 2 fingers of yours and two fingers of mine to make our love complete
Baby,
They must’ve added up our emotions subtracted the lust sat first sight only to be left with true feelings
Remembering that 2 has always served as the numerical value for love.
But if not there
Then I'd rather be here
Sitting next to the sister that I never got to meet.
Gone.
Way before I took to mama’s uterus as home.
And Baba told me you were beautiful
Reflecting that of the way the sun kisses the continent awake with each dawning
And though many have forgotten,
The radiance of your skin still sits deep in Mama’s mind.
Her sons would grow to be Kings and
We were suppose to be the two that reminded Mama of what Princesses look like
But you left me before our eyes could ever meet and before our souls kindly introduced themselves
So if not here then
I’d rather go back
Rewind back into a time when change could be made
Only to then be fast forwarded
To a new present when
We ruled the world
Everyone conquered like the Ethiopians
Africa colonized the world
Giving keepsake to native languages.
Never really pursing diamonds because the taste of blood has never sat comfortably on our tongues.
Nubia would never be known as ancient and we would have to deem the Nile its killer.
Katrina and Rwanda would be names of its Dynasties.
And people would forever live
peacefully
Never worrying about someone asking them
“why they where their Africaness so proudly”
Because It would be given
But because I cant go back
I’m stuck here
Room 222 in the this building
Solving and unsolving life’s x’s and y’s
Only to discover new unknowns
So until I’m certain of me
Ill just leave all my answers blank.
