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Love Lifts the Shade
a black girl tries
to change her
childlike brain
longs for love
something she
could only dream of
teachers and teenagers tease
the attacks anger her
wears their words like
accessories, then she accesses
acceptance from above
the girl slowly starts telling
hatred to remove her from
its habitat in her heart
plants peace instead
love compels cultures
to cultivate with
backgrounds and ethnicities
this black girl guards my soul
Love lifts the shade.
the black girl
transfers to
a teenager
she develops a
poetic personality
bullying appears binding
but low self-esteem
is her real enemy
thoughts are a diary composition
words work her head
plays a song to soothe
a teenager tethering
light exuberates out
to exalt the extraordinary
this teenager travels in my soul
Love lifts the shade.
the teenager tee
balls into an adult
the woman wades
wisdom in a cup
she wants pigment people
to reevaluate the right from wrong
voices are useful as urns
voting cold hearts to love
the female’s unfailing faith
projects a more prominent charge
gigantic is the galaxy
of eternity’s continuum
allow this love to the world
capture it in a carebox
let it remain as remarkable
this woman weaves within my soul
Love lifts the shade.
Traci Neal is a professional Christian poet and a certified youth speaker.
Her website is: www.tracinealspeakerpoet.com
February 2025 issue
Love "wears their words like accessories" and "thoughts are a diary composition."