(Apropos A Velasco Legacy)
With divine perseverance
and angelic patience,
she netted the waters of life.
Conquering
moments of loneliness
and despair,
she choose freedom
of independence and its perks.
She could do the right thing
all by herself;
giving to all that needed her.
My mother’s sister
was one powerful black woman
who mothered us all:
Lord, let me become the man
this beautiful black woman was.