Voodoo, Hoodoo, Black Magic, Obeah or Ms. Celie’s Curse. Don’t make me throw this on you.
I got potions, lotions, loaded thoughts, bones, bits and pieces & a few herbs.
I can be a witch doctor, a conjure man or a mofo you really just don’t want to deal with.
My great grandmother told me a secret.
We called her Ymoja. They called her Gal.
She was Black. Real Black! Black hands, black eyes, black tongue, black everything!
This secret is at least 110 years old & it protects my African soul.
It is both bad and good, just depends on the view.
When I watched her die, I was 9.
I saw this secret lift off of her body like a thin wisp smoke.
It was: Strange. Scary. Confusing. Comforting.
I think about her often. I think about the secret more.
If I make it, no when I make it to the phase of my life, I will share this secret with my oldest great grandchild knowing that I will slip into an unknown future.
Voodoo, Hoodoo, Black Magic, Obeah or Ms. Celie’s Curse. Don’t make me throw this on you.
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