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HEARD ABOUT ESE?

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Have you heard about Ese?  Golden black Ese as we used to call her.  Her skin so beautiful that most people called her the goddess of the black race.  She went to papa Ijebu, who mixed pepper with lemon water, he added a little bit of carol white and a pinch of something which name, I can't recall. Suddenly the black in her skin vanished like magic, she was now "African snow white"  and she reigned in her head and her new found skin.  Ese was walking on the air, almost like her new skin gave her super powers.  Awhile later, there were cracks, itches,scratches and peelings... Her body was at war with itself.  Ese's skin changed colors more rapidly than a chameleon, no one could keep up. Then came the decay that went from her skin deep inside of her and in a flash, she was gone.   Ese died trying to be who she wasn't, she was so dissatisfied with being black in a black skin and I wonder why, what is so wrong with being black?  
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My Son part 1


       

                   
If you are reading this note
Then I must have jumped the cliff before you came my son
I know your job held you back
Many jobs were what I did to keep you alive
Don't worry that you didn't get to buy me a wrapper
I sold a hundred of them for your future sake
I understand my thatch house is too small to contain you now
but my tiny womb gladly housed you without a rent...
Don't feel bad that I slept in the cold when my own arms warmed you through the years
Don't be afraid to return to the city
I gave you all my love
And the city gained all of yours
Go now my son and tell the city that I died envying the love it gained in my place
         
                   @lizzy's haven

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