The Black Rainbow

 

Logée là où toutes les couleurs se croisent

J'habite à l'intersection de l'avenue d'Arcand et de la rue Ciel

Là où je deviens femmes (à) cent couleurs

Là où je deviens femme de couleur, femme noire

 

Dans les interstices de ces croisements

J'existe dans la singularité du simultané

À travers ces espaces,

Mon corps prend forme d'une nouvelle dimension.

 

And so…my skin shifts to a new shade

The one they call Black girl magic

 

It's the foundation of

An enchanting embrace that glorifies

The magic of innovation

The unstoppable wave of creation

Arising from our imagination

 

It's our love

It's our sisterhood

It's in the confidence we share

It's in all the revolutions we battle

 

And despite any obstacles,

Our magic prevails

Through our realness

Black girl magic … running through our veins

Some may name it the Eve Gene

The gene that brings us back to the origin

The land of Eden

While some may have tried to question my place in this world

But let me remind you that

As Eve, I'm part of this world Genesis

As Eve, I am the mother that birthed you all

And through your DNAs, my existence remains without an end

 

So yeah, some may try to play pretend

Cover their eyes and play blind

But don't worry,

They will see…

Every line you trace back

History takes roots in my bloodline…

Dare I say, the future is mine

You may think I'm conceited

But plain truth be told

The future comes from our mind

So, tell me …how are we not the true blueprints?

 

Well, I have a theory

They may have been stoned by the Mandela effect

But I'm not one to forget Nelson's legacy

Him and others paved the way

Drawing us a map to better days

It's written in the palm of my hands

As the blueprint lines predicted

I can see the paths leading us

Back to the motherland

Black to the future

I foresee blackness

Not to be confused with darkness

'Cause blackness has never been so bright

Let me say it again, black to the future

 

I see it so clearly, I can even taste it

It tastes like complete independence

A.K.A. governance over what's ours

It tastes like pure recognition

A.K.A being seen for our true value

It tastes like my community can finally live in ease

A.K.A we self-healed

We self-healed

 

Through art, music and countless disciplines

We self-healed… and we rose

We rose and reclaimed agency of our own

We rose and took the freedom we are owned

And just like a rose we bloomed into the flower

We were meant to be as a community

Living at the intersection of the black rainbow

 

Et c'est là où je loge notre future

Là où toutes les couleurs s'entrecroisent,

Et inévitablement deviennent noires

À l'intersection de toutes nos dimensions

My blackness is every shade of the rainbow

 

By Irmela