Genre: Urban Arts

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From Purity to Commerce

she wore her tribal threadsdraped in hand woven clothand hand beaded necklacescovering only the bare necessitiesand she wasbeautifulpurenakedand shamelessshe wore nothingand stood for everything goodin this worldanddespite her confidenceandself-loveshe was soldmaking money for menwho abused and shamed hershe cooked and took care of childrenfor white womenwho spit onand scorned hershe held her head lowto stay in her placeshe went from being shamelessto being covered upand defamed...her beautynow displacedand shewent from being  draped in humilityto using herpurityto get generate commercesolelyto get people to look her in the face...butwill she ever get backback to a place wherepeace was in the purityand the commercewas nearly humilityhappinessand grace...