
Sweet chile
Eyes wide shut
How most white Americans function
As I rock a sweet white baby to sleep
Much like my ancestors rocking future oppressors
These fat cheeks, tiny toes
Nuzzled into my neck
Milky breaths of newness
With the old sour taste of racism
Eyes wide shut
Now that the performance of alliship has waned
What do your white circles look like
Waiting for Idol to return and
Pumpkin spice latte
As I sit at the feet of a nursing white mom
Thanking my ancestors who did this same job
But no choice of their own
Thanking them for the strength they gave their babies so I could be here
Eyes wide shut
As the most unqualified whitest of women
Lifetime appointment to our highest court
Affirmative action was always for them
Pink pussy hats be damned
My lips brown
This doula work,
I do for my people
I need to eat too
So I do it for white folks
But I have a voice and change the narrative
Oh you do that because your culture tells you, but mine tells me different
Make sure your children's books have Black people as the main character not background coloring
Eyes wide shut is a conscious choice of white people now
Yesterday
Tomorrow
These issues as American as baseball, lynchings, apple pie
As I lay a sweet white baby girl wondering will she grow to be unqualified and take up far too much space