African Women Poem by Laju E. Oyewoli

My African women
Whose tender gaze has woken the giant within me
For it sees and searches my darkest wound
Healing them quickly and gently
And refining me a whole

Our African women
Whose beautifulness has entices the strongest men of our clan
Making them meekly as a dove
And protective as an eagle

African women
Whose beautiful blood
Flows am glows
In the heritage of their colour
For in it lies our pride