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LaShawn Smith-Wright

August 1, 2018

WusGood: “What’s your fav thing bout being Slytherin?

LaShawn: “Everyone expects bad from us so when we do something good it puts people on edge…makes them question their morals and prejudice. You can drive someone mad without doing anything wrong – make them more susceptible to manipulation”


Janelle Monae Writes Shuri a Love Letter

 

Oh Black queen,

Of technological birth

You give me all the magic

Your country has lost

Call me foreigner

As I drink in the nectar

Of your pristine sweat

Oh sweet birthplace

Of chocolate

Divine queen of progress

Progressively come up on me

You Wakandan warrior

Give me all the salvation I need

Vibrate my soul

And make me something mythical

You be mythical

Black girl

Urban legend

Yo curves be enlightenment

I keep catching myself in

Natural roots a tangled mess

Of freedom

Black woman

You be intellect

Every woman done basked in

Done taken from

Done made a home in

Mouth snap

With clever, academic preciseness

That can only come from

A creator

Baby yous a creator

You built a whole country on your brain

Litly rose up a race

Melanized a “colonizer”  

You innovator

You did more than make a hero

You were one

You creatively saved the Wakandian race

With class

That demanded envy

And girl am I envious

Of anyone who gets to know you


An Unhealthy Bond

I never give them any clothes

I notice this

Always ask for more than I give

Realize this is a choice

I’m not comfortable saying no to

Maybe I just don’t know how to refuse myself things

It’s so easy to take for granted

Those who don’t fight back

And I like knowing I have control over you

Don’t let me have control over you, little elf

I will not loosen my hold

I will only love you when it’s convenient to me

And you will call it beautiful

Say I am your Master

As I make you need me

Want me

You will love me more than you care for yourself

Will crucio yo vitality

Around my finger

Avada kedavra your life away

You will have me imperio

Any thought of this

Of me being wrong

Out of your mind

Without a second thought

You will think I am everything

Even though every part of you

Tells you I’m not

And I won’t correct you

I won’t feel like it’s my place

I won’t let you go, little elf


Daitya

 

I come from the pyramids of Egypt

Grow in the Congo

Where the heat kills

Faster than my black petals

People call me beautiful

Tempted by my darkness

They whisper sweet nothings

Just to have a taste of me

Stare at my white stalk in longing

For what could be

If they just had one touch

No one ever likes the feel of me

Inside them

Say I wasn’t worth dying for

Blame me for their temptation

As they connect with the wet, hard earth

They call me Daitya

Say I laugh as the breath leaves their body

Sway a forbidden dance as their body hits the floor

I hear them say I smell of a safety

A scent of  lilac and home

That gyrates into their nostrils

Hooking them on my sensual beat

Moving them to lay my body to rest

Inside their mouth

Holding their vigor

Inside me

For the first time

Absorbing all the life

 


LaShawn Smith-Wright is  a college freshman originally from Detroit, MI. she loves spending time around other poets ready to develop their craft and share their story which isn’t an available experience at her college. Regardless of this she still loves poetry and writes daily. All in all I am someone who loves telling my story in everything I do

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