Reclaiming My Edges

By Kacee Kemiah

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

• Language: English
• Publisher: ShaBazz Enterprise Publishing
• Release date: Nov 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9781088035641

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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