My grandma said, nothing real can be threatened. True love brought salvation back into me. With every tear came redemption and my torturer became my remedy. So we're gonna heal, we're gonna start again.
You've brought the orchestra, synchronized swimmers, you are the magician. Pull me back together again the way you cut me in half. Make the woman in doubt disappear. Pull the sorrow from between my legs like silk. Knot after knot after knot.
The audience applauds but we can't hear them
YOU ARE READING
Lemonade Poems
PuisiPoems spoken in Beyoncé's Lemonade. Poems are originally from Warsan Shire.
