Grand of Mothers
Great of the Grand
Maternal Matriarch, our lives touched and soothed by her oaked brown hands
Nana, Big Mama, Sister Elder to the Church
In whose mapped skinned eyes, the Truth of our Be/ing, we search
Your back now bent and arched
From serving others water when you're own lips were parched
You Elder QueenÂ
Are the Reason that we have seen
President Barack Obama standing straight and proud
For that which you could only whisper softly, he is now able to say out loud.
