I am the lighter daughter 

Sisters skin dark like cacao beans

Doused in holy oils 

Bent over pulpits 

Holy Black Womxnhood

Where others prey 

Privilege unseen 

Invisible elder

“This is my daughter”

Beaming with pride

Dark shadows

Over others 

Invisible to privilege

The lighter 

Butterscotch winters 

Whiter in the winter

Nana we like me

With copper daughter 

Darker shadows 

Decades passed 

Same illness