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Lady Loxx

Queen

 The meaning of

the word Queen to me

is a woman

personified as a woman who emanates

supreme mystical dignity and respectability

and I and I are all these things and greater selected to be a divine creature of nature

by the creator

I am complicated engaging, radiant

with splendour

a compliment to a man and my gender

I am woman

interwoven with a man without the other

cannot stand

I am female

extracted from a male

I am Earth

the beginning

to all being

I am selfless, forgiveness and kindness without contradiction

I am love and devotion sacrificed and chosen

by creation

to bring forth a

godly nation

I am the foundation and the reason

that you seem not to understand why the shit hasn’t already hit the fan I am spiritual

gifted with a sixth sense

I am endurance

in the face

of hindrance

I am sensuous

with a touch that you want so much

I am like fine wine

only becoming

better and sweeter

with time

I am beauty

concealing the burdens that I carry

I am ebony, sable, caramel, golden, beige, dun, bronze, terracotta, butterscotch, mocha, sierra, chocolate with a pinch of vanilla

Mahogany, toffee, almond, midnight , tan, umber, chestnut raven, sand, jet black as cole in all shades

I am beautiful

I am soul

red, green and gold

I am inspiration

during trial

and tribulation

I am strong

absent of force

don’t act like

you can’t hear me

I am your inner voice

I am a prayer of hope

I do my job so well

you forget that

I am your life support

I am a quiet river

that runs deep

with a heart beat

that will not cease

I am the Sheppard

of my sheep

the one who hurts

when you weep

I am a Rasta

not just a Rasta man’s woman but a Rasta woman a sister of Jah

I am a Garveyite on herbalistic heights

I am light

penetrating darkness with right

I am an Empress, Goddess who is limitless and blessed

I am the essence of life the balance between mother and wife

and lover

I am black power

I am African

identified by

thick lips, small hips and a big behind

I am superwoman sometimes I get tangled in my cape

I am versatile

I change directions

and I follow fate

I am your wife, mistress, friend

and lover

and much too often

just your baby mother

I am a survivor

and the truth

has set me free

I want you to take a good look at me

because without a crown it might go unseen

that I am a Queen.

By: Lady Loxx


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NAPPY HAIR

The struggle with my black nappy hair begun when I was young I received countless wraps on the back of my knuckles with the comb from mama cause she wasn’t fooling when she said turn your head and stop moving I would be twitching cause my booty be hurting from all the time that I’ve been sitting and with mama there’s no such thing as compromising or discussion just fighting and fussing and verbal treats in yardy cussing and still when I was told to hold my position I act up and wouldn’t listen instead I through a tantrum on the floor and for mama the every day drama of styling my hair became a chore when I was called I would run and hide and always stalled and once captured and apprehend would fall asleep into a hypnotic like state to escape my broke neck fate than I would reawaken and after it’s braided in rows I wanted to know what was all the bother for I wanted to be like my father and front a fro but mama said oh hell no! the m naps can’t flow no more than a day or so,

so soon after we start applying the hot comb and the curling iron and after it was heated and mix with grease it only increased the numerous brushes with burns and accidental touches how can I forget it left it mark on my ears, forehead and the back of my neck but let it be shown that a bitter sweet cover was blown

That good hair

Naps back into a fro

When exposed to H2O like you didn’t know

now looking at back then I could never comprehend the several experiments conducted on my head at first I had a little help after awhile I was setting the style all by myself repeating this procedure over and over again until each strain of hair is straighten to achieve this good hair deception amounted into much frustration which came one quick conclusion that the methods we’re using we’re too time consuming so relaxing seem to be the ideal solution to maintain this good illusion of misconception and mass confusion still I continued chemically abusing burning, dyeing , frying bleaching, cutting, shaving,

crimping, weaving, tight braids, split ends, wigs and a jerry curl, I don’t know what in the world I was thinking girl not realizing that the damaging effects that I was creating was making my hair rotten and decaying it was falling out and it was breaking altering the truth couldn’t hide my real nappy roots this liberation became my salvation to stop masquerading and start representing a Queenly being gone so ling unseen


By: Lady Loxx


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