BIO

 

Zeta Blu is a new contributor to Sisters Of The Page. She is an educator, mother, wife and successful career woman. She shares her passion for learning with children in her native Texas. We hope to see more of her work in coming issues.

 

To A Lost Child

You can’t deny it,

You can’t hide it,

Your Mother is Africa.

Through your dark beautiful eyes

The beauty of Africa can be seen

But them you choose to disguise

With contact of grey, blue and green.

Your brown beautiful sun-soaked skin

Reveals that to the Motherland you are akin.

But with chemicals you lightened them to a pale ugly hue,

Hoping that for some European we will mistaken you.

How can you deny your Mother?

It’s you she loves and no other.

She nurtured you and protected you all the day long

Until the white man came and snatched you from her bosom,

Now how is it that she is wrong?

The map of Africa is plastered across your face-

Please stop hiding it in disgrace!

Remember, the blood that passes through each vein

Comes from your Mother and Africa is her name!