The Shadow Matriarch

I am a woman with no age

A colour with no race

I can turn dark

I can turn light

But the darkness in me is pretty dark

The daylight in me is a small light

When the light shines bright, it burns me

I yell harder and louder in a rage of hope

Until the hope hurts

My head held high

Behind is the fire

The heat is burning me

To run is weakness, to stay is courage 

If I run, death will follow me

 Scars will be my forever 

 Scars will be my tattoos

Fancy on the skin but ugly inside

 Locked myself inside for an age

and no one knew I was there

When I finally opened the door

It smelt like hell inside

But hell could become a palace,

Cleaning, repainting

I took care of it, respected and loved it,

worked at it

Now I call it

My kingdom

I am a queen, my blood runs through you

The drop of my blood gives you life

Your brain formed in my womb  

And you are fed of my milk

 We carry the weight of new life

It lives out of us

and we live out of it

the future of the nation

You're the blood of my vein

Emerged from my darkness

Once a cave

Now a palace

Once a scar

Now my tattoo of glory