Rene – Portrait of a Black Beauty

Young, intelligent and self-assured.

By Stanley Collymore

 

Although we’ve only quite recently met

I’m pretty sure we’ve always known

that we existed somewhere

on this planet, waiting for

the right moment

to discover each other.

And now that we have I simply can’t wait

to fully explore the several possibilities

and much more of this new and most

exciting friendship we’ve freely

and spontaneously begun;

and which for me

is a marvellous

opportunity

to be courted once again

by a black woman that’s urbane

and who, besides, is well educated,

clever, cerebral and culturally the same.

 

And amidst the euphoria of this new start

and the dizzy stirrings of my happy

and now contented heart

I have to honestly admit that

the long and, at times, heart-rending

search for you was well and truly

worth the pain and the many

sacrifices caused by it.

 

© Stanley V. Collymore

16 July 2001.