Blueprint
Black girl, black girl
Do you know who you are?
Do you know the magic you hold in the palm of your hand?
Your black girl magic to be exact.
The gifts you hold in your hand?
The ideas you can mold in your delicate mind
The sweet vibrations of your voice when you speak
And the mellow breeze when you whisper
What you speak and how you speak.
Black girl, black girl
Ever since you were born, you were told you were beautiful by your ancestors
You are beautifully and wonderfully made by your Creator
The drops of melanin distributed perfectly on your skin
The beginning of a new glowing goddess in the making.
Your overwhelming confidence is blinding and your figure is striking
From your lips all the way to your hips, you are a blueprint.
Yes, black girl.
You are the blueprint.
But poor black girl, black girl
You were not born into a world of perfection but into a world of war, controversy, and rejection
Controversy over your natural beauty and succumbed to your artificially-made stereotypes
Not into a world of unity or equality
Yes, black girl.
You are criticized for your looks and your shade of melanin.
Why do you keep forgetting your beauty?!
Do you not remember what you were told?
Why do you keep listening to your enemies and straying away from your truth?
You're fading away from your gentle assurance and being swarmed in this tornado
You are criticized for your looks and your shade of melanin.
Being tossed into headlines and called violent for participating in peaceful movements
Full of attention-seeking people trying to capture your anger to post online
Thrown into categories designed to keep you tight
And pushed into the cages set up for you to stay quiet
Blinded by what's truly happening to your black boys and black men
Poor black girl! You are forgetting your worth in this world!
Every single day you are discouraged
From what you do, to what you say, you are judged.
Sometimes you ponder whether living is even worth it
BECAUSE
You're sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Oh, black girl...
The problem you have on your hands gets bigger until we all make a CHANGE
Black girl, black girl
Do you know who you are?
Do you know the magic you hold in the palm of your hand?
Your black girl magic to be exact.
The gifts you hold in your hand?
The ideas you can mold in your delicate mind
The sweet vibrations of your voice when you speak
And the mellow breeze when you whisper
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