Echoes from history,
Shout from her skin, her blood,
Her ancestry,
M.A.C had tried to contour, that nose,
Stain those lips, straighten that hair to
Shout a different type of whisper,
Those dark rimmed lips,
Much like her mother’s,
Those eyes are a window to her grandfather’s
Whose gaze was constantly fixated on the African plains, a rich a brown colour.
Skin which show the glow of the sun,
Had once radiated on her mothers skin,
And even in a land with distant a sun
Her skin tells the world where she’s from
She gazes into the mirror and realises
I am beautiful, held in a million hearts,
Not for magazines for all to see,
With her blue diraac, she is the Somali pearl
Her grandfather used to speak off,…
Hawo Sayyid
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