Dear African, enough is your strife elevated
Black? Just a caption centuries designated
To transgress your innate graceful package
To subject your invaded terrain hostage
Body shamed, barred and yoked
And in darkness of denial docked
Your bold textures dulled to refurbish
A lighter sketch baked in pale vanish
A suspicious obsession of imitation toxic
On a canvas pure, deflowered in a picnic
Whence you perform to deform your orthodox
To a costume of a paradox in Pandora’s box
Why cast for a paradigm of a palour sub-ordained
In a confectionary factory a concept purloined?
Your import beguiles your indigenous charms
Summed in echoes of waged schemes
To strip you naked to treacherous efficacy
You exacerbate this prejudiced conspiracy
When you manoeuvre to dismantle lineage
To recreate a mortgage of a borrowed image
Indebted to dwell in a pseudo euphemism
Clothed in media en route popular egotism
Of caricatures of surrogate shuttles
Gone with the tide riding on the models
A fiction induced, concocted and marketed
In adverts of recipes of esteem desecrated
Plagiarised and published in ashtrays
Exhibiting butts of identities in malaise
A countenance that showcases skits
of authored morbid counterfeits
©Abi Maria Amaru
©abimaria
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