Baby phat
Baby Phat
Shout- Out
Atigre’ Farmer
© Copyright 2013
Her shadow lies behind her
She is no longer that girl they all can’t wait to see
She is a woman
Sometimes a closet of her own dirt
A simple concoction of determined and two times a man’s work
A diamond that rust and transforms into a rock
An innocent cow murdered right on the spot
She is an artist that can’t even draw a line
That girl right there is no longer young
She crossed that path a while ago when she took a Neuse and hung herself
Which amused death to see a tough sky fall?
Selfish death right?
Taking a life every day, chipping off a piece of the boulder every time it’s in her way
Death has to be a woman right?
It makes sense going around in her black silk cape made up of silent threads, feeding through the cups of dead souls
Death has to be a woman right?
Carrying bags on her shoulders of the depressed, abused, and the joyful
Feeling as heavy as sumo-wrestlers hanging on to her bare dry shoulder bones by the very nails at their fingertips.
Death is a woman
Her shadow lies behind her she is no longer that girl they all can’t wait to see.
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