They Call Me Blessed (Tribute to Nina Simone)

from Coming Back A Champion by Oriana lee

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Proverbs 31:28
Luke 1:48

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they call me...
Aunt Sarah, Saffronia, Sweet Thing & Peaches
director, doctor, exec, head teacher
prophetess, journalist, artist, chef
accountant, attorney, political activist
supervisor, astronaut, master chief of the navy
secretary of state, they call me first lady

Mommy, Granny, Titi, Big Mama,
sister, niece, wife and daughter
call me whatever it is I am to you
stand my own ground hold my own two
all the same don't call me out my name
this African Queen's one dangerous dame

whether stiletto stepping being New York siddity
swaying southern hips curved like the Mississippi
tenacious & ambitious as a certain western Texan
or breaking down Cali laws sweet & unsuspecting
all over my square without being in it
play by the rule but know how to bend it

chief multi-tasker, bomb entrepreneur
tough as stainless steel nails & sure to endure
my sass a source of comedic relief
dash of decorum, the package complete
my feminine wild as the wind that blows
Proverbs 31 my template, holy code

God created a colored girl to start this whole cycle
had a virgin carry Jesus got word from Michael
I come from a long line of world over-comers
handle my biz cool as fans midsummer

call me woman of color made like no other
cut from fabric of my mother & her mother
generations will know me for ages to come
& hear what they call me all rolled into one

arise

they call me
blessed

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from Coming Back A Champion, released July 2, 2013
Lyrics-Oriana Lee
Music-Premo D'Anger

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eye fight for the write.
eye am a writer.
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