Lying to a Child

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The Angel...was Black...
nondescriptly dressed, 
with curly hair, 
kind eyes in a plain face
that was bruised and bled
as she tried to cradle me out 
holding tightly on to me
after she got me safe
out of the rubble and the debris 
of the crashed car


Can it be true?

Were not angels fair
and their eyes blue?
Sashaying in her dress
glittering like the moon?
with a face that God only
could have drawn?


Why did they lie to me?

my favourite character in the cartoons
was the pretty angel or the fairy
because no one could match her
superior beauty
why didn’t they show me


that angels looked just like me…


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