Yaya Bey
I am the daughter of a girl
Who could go missing
For 7 years
31 years
And the world wouldn’t skip a beat
A heavy thing
Too broken to be a daughter
Too wild to be a lover
A ghost
An imaginary thing
Nobody cares to witness
And when you look at my face
When anybody looks at my face
They say you look just like your father
But I am certain she’s in there somewhere
It’s just
Nobody ever looks
- Yaya Bey
some girls
remind us so much of god
that when they go missing
we don't look so hard
the wells in our eyes dry up
and there is no libation left to pour
when this happens
we never talk about it
we just hide
besides
how would we explain to god
we've used up all the water on the boys
- Yaya Bey
I could tell you about Eric Garner
And how he may or may not have been selling loosies
When the breath was squeezed from his body
I could tell you how cigarettes are bad for the lungs but you already know that
We already know that it is very probable that niggas are still buying loosies from the very spot that a very large now very dead black man had his last breath
But with all that I could say
Let the record reflect
He did not die from a cigarette
- Yaya Bey
Yaya Bey is a black multidisciplinary artist, community organizer and New York native. Her pronouns are she and her and she’s a homebody. She is a musician and artist. If you would like to find out more about her and to listen to her new album stream here .