I’m Wholesomely Black! Poem by Charles Jagongo

I know that charcoal is black
That its fire makes our beef well cooked
I know this beauty with lips so soft and black,
That her eyes glitter like a star in a dead night
With eye balls resembling a pearl in a cup of milk
A shapely frame with arms outstretched
To receive my black wholesome skin.

I know of them in white religious ‘Kanzus’
That all evil they know as black colored
They who have all to condemn.

While black in pure heart absorbs heat head bowed.
It is my pride
It is my home
God chose this for me
To let you know how to love.

I’m wholesomely black.

You never chose your day
You never chose your sire
In this wonderful world you are a child of fate,
Evil has no boundary in your pure heart
I’m clothed in a black suit
Universe is diverse my arms are open.