Blueprint for Self Love
I could never keep your secrets (your secrets)
You still belong to them
I can't hold them without breaking
Slipping through my lips like sand
But maybe if you act right we can play it cool
And you can show me all the ways
That you are different
Maybe if I close my eyes
I can be a fool, for you
And we can enjoy the tide
Without slipping in the deep-end



You try to look like me
I try to look like you
Disfigured projections bouncing off impressions
Of beauty misconstrued

As a girl
Probably told you
Black skin too dark to fit their rooms
Not knowing your skin shelters the moon
Brown girl step back
Don't you know what your place is?
Our faces don't belong in your basements
Our faces belong on the screens
Don't you know black skin is supreme?

Too many shades to fit the cover of vogue magazine