Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEBrown girls are not band aids for your pain.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEShame is what happens when you learn self love through people who are difficult to forgive.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEMy love language is saying no and having them listen to me.
SUMAYA ENYEGUELoving you and leaving you taste the same in the mouth?
SUMAYA ENYEGUEDid our fathers create silence or is it that what makes them our fathers?
SUMAYA ENYEGUEAre you native to the land you are spilling blood on?
SUMAYA ENYEGUEAlone is the safest I have ever felt.
SUMAYA ENYEGUECan we just pretend we are wanted?
SUMAYA ENYEGUEYou come here trying to make a meal out of me? I will eat you alive.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEAs you buy tampons you will be hit with the realization that you’re still paying in blood.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEThere is a girl on fire a woman choking a body walking into the ocean and they all have my face. They all have my heart because I give that away so easily.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEI wish I was as good at love as I am at falling apart.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEDo girls really mature faster than boys or are you looking for a way to sexualize young girls without feeling guilty about it?
SUMAYA ENYEGUEWe romanticize trauma so much that we have stopped trying to prevent it and started smiling at all the scars it leaves.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEBlack don’t crack: It does bruise, though. It does rupture into a new sky.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEI am always becoming a new tragedy. Trading one torture for another. Forever versatile in this becoming.
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