Bloody Kente is bloody
black solid and strong and old
rivers sometimes lead home and sometimes far far away
a spring feeding the earth birthing bloody
green like bloody kente.
mother, my Kente is bloody
blue like the evening sun sky
with streaks of dark and bloody
orange on my bloody kente.
the middle of the day bloody
orange as the sun is, warm and bearable
it is not like
when I am stopped in thermal freeze
when it is too hot to move about
with mother bearing down
in startling intensity.
Bloody Kente is bloody
gold royal gold kunta kinte gold
like a king!
full like a fishmarket boiling with masses bloody
white and other bloody colors
and seething in plentifulness.
bloody gold and plenty is good
and royal bloody
purple I thought?
bloody kente, mother, is bloody
purple, mother, like earth and home
you would have thought it
more the royal prince than its forebearer
but no just home and health
(ebibibiri) shut out your eye
it is fine here
that your bloody kente is all these colors.
It is beautiful, but it looks bloody?
Bloody colorful you say?
Ah well, you must be dripping
from jumping into the world headfirst?
dinner is on the table,
and mother is waiting.
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