Love is a word, another kind of open.
As the diamond comes into a knot of flame.
I am Black because I come from the earth’s inside
now take my word for jewel in the open light.
From Undersong: Chosen Poems Old and New, Revised Edition
Copyright © 1992, 1973, 1970, 1968 by Audre Lorde
Reprinted with the permission of W.W. Norton & Company