Behold
Black girl brilliant
Her brains will have you believe
She belongs on thrones
Instead of the belly of boats
Before she was brethren
She was broken
Busted and left out
By baller boys who faces turned blue
Because of she made it hard to breathe
Boys who loved her bottom
So she trades blossoms for
Bags tried to break her bedazzlement
Bestowed her greatness on
People who could not handle the
Weight of her being
So they called it baggage
Tell her A-side is B class at best
blasphme this butterfly
Behold
Black girl beyond
not basic
blessed
not bruised
love her
know her
befriend her
because before she was understood
before she could be the balm
before we study the biography of her
she was beloved