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    Reclaiming My Edges
    Reclaiming My Edges
    Reclaiming My Edges
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    Reclaiming My Edges

    By Kacee Kemiah

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    Kim Braxton (AKA) Kacee Kemiah is an American poet and Spoken Word Artist. As an empowered African-American woman, she seeks to share her life experiences with others with the aim of fostering understanding and tolerance. Her poems and book reflect insights gained through her life experiences which include social activism, female empowerment and re
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherShaBazz Enterprise Publishing
    Release dateNov 1, 2022
    ISBN9781088035641
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      Book preview

      Reclaiming My Edges - Kacee Kemiah

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      RECLAIMING MY EDGES

      My black hair, my beautiful black coily hair

      Why?  Why?  So much about my hair do I care?

      Why in beauty?  Do you think I don’t share?

      Every morning in the mirror I stare

      Full aware before I boldly declare:

      I am reclaiming my edges

      Age 7, I cut off every ponytail that I had

      I knew immediately I had done something bad

      A mortal enemy of my tresses I had made

      Barbershop was a game I shouldn’t have played

      The love affair with my hair was over quick

      Suddenly I was a bald-head chick

      In the pit of my stomach I felt sick

      For many years, I would have wounds to lick

      My punishment was fast, it was super swift

      I created this rift and killed the gift

      My beauty was now in the eye of the beholder

      Suddenly my world was colder

      Hours and hours in the beauty parlor getting my hair done

      I should have been out having fun

      Tortured the whole god dam day

      Trying to look a certain way

      Tightly pulled braids i could feel my head explode

      Dreams of my beauty sold

      Fell victim to what i was told

      I had way too many perms and ass long weaves

      Hair pressure to relieve

      New hairstyles to conceive

      Failed attempts to deceive

      White standard of beauty I tried to achieve

      I’m reclaiming me and my lost edges

      My hair is no longer a thorn in hedges

      Each strand to you I make to new pledges

      No more chemicals and fuck that slick look

      Cause it’s my strength, my growth and my edges it took

      Time for a new story in my look book

      Your standard of beauty that myth has been

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