My black sisters is this the only job that pays

So much dollar bills and make you hectic?

Come to think of the dangers that lie ahead of

All the risk you dare to take just to sell yourself

For rubbles and be made into pulp by people

Most often who could have been your employees

Provided you had stayed in college to graduate

As Chief Judges,Six star Generals and what have you?

My black girl whose color is ebony black turn around

Watch your backyard and say to self I am pretty, romantic

Hot potatoes on the hands of men; yet will not sleep with men

I shall sharpen my wits and become another great woman

Of substance so that other women can look up to me

You are more than an article on sale for men to come

And take up so that they can quench their libido wherever

Necessary and wherever the need arise for they have the guts

Stop being naïve and become that woman who can shun money

Even if it means shunning it to live in abject misery please honey do it

I know that your future shines like the bright morning star

Announcing another chapter in your entire life

Please dear sister.,look pass your past and embrace the sweetness

That could have been forfeited if you became a prostitute

Be that ambassador for the womenfolk so that others shall

Recollect themselves by using you as their barometers for success

Men let's use our God  given potentials correctly by granting Scholarships

To our black sisters without any strings attached so that they can achieve dreams

Of their lives which so many harbor , but lack a push which you and I can offer

Ndim Bernard Nguoche

Poet and writer

Done today 22/07/09