Ashanti's Kiss





Ashanti's kiss is...



a spellbinding story to which

no end exists and the twists are

as endless as infinity's rapture.



the tide upon which flows the salon

that carried kings and queens and

children of the Pharoah's.  Strong

and purposeful in its direction.



Mo bettuh!  Because it's Mo beautiful

than all the Earth tones in this pallete

which is defined by the people of the Sun.



the love of the ancestor's, the ancients,

the hand I hold, and the progeny before me.

All past, present, and future combined in

softly exhilarating candor.



the love my mama passed on to me, so I

could pass it on to one born and borne

from the true love I share my heart with

and give that love to...totally.



is simply complicated.  The depth of it

transcends the mere experience of mortal

perception and plays itself out on a plane

more cerebral and spiritual than our five

senses can comprehend.



like a perfect thought, verbalized.  It's

resolve clear, and now, through it's guidance

that thought is translated to action.  From

the ethereal to the corporal by a circuitous

route from the brain to the cerebral cortex

and over the lips and tongue.  Bringing

reality from nothingness.



copper skin and hazel eyes and chocolate skin

and sepia eyes, and all the "red" and black

that exists in between the you that is you

and the me that is me that makes us the "us"

you love to emulate.



the straight-out blackness of me found in you

and lost in the longing looks and sultry

glances that says I like my passion hot and

powerful and explosive and whatever adjective

quantifies you in my world.



Thus...is Ashanti's kiss.

Author's Notes/Comments: 

The origins of this poem are quite simple, it just came to me...lol.  It reminds me of the editor of Essence magazine.

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