Kim El
Kuumba Productions

It was like the moon opened up her mouth and told me, “This is who you are.”…

Placed me next to the sun and a star and said, “Shine!”

So I did and a love returned inside of me like when I was a kid again

It had me stepping out of shadows layer’d in sin.

And in an instant a light came into my life

It pushed years of psychological abuse to the left and to the right

Then suddenly my molecules moved and shifted

I felt blessed and gifted…Have you ever felt this way?

Well, maybe it’s because the Moon never came to you to say, “Shine!”

See, like many women who walk this earth, 

I have been wearing the blackness of my skin inside out

Always ready to scream and shout about nothing and everything

My spirit wanted to sing. But for years I have been on the edge of darkness and light

Contemplating the wrongness and right of this world

Then the Moon said to me, “Baby, girl…it’s time for you to fly!”

And she asked me why I stayed hidden in the shadows

Told me that only God knows what’s on the other side of my day

Asked me to feel his light when I meditate and pray

And to know that the same sun that melts the wax

Also hardens the clay…Hey!  Have you ever felt this way?

I’m here to tell you today… it’s your time to Shine!

Now when my life is stressful, and my Angels tell me to “Be still”…

I know it’s my inner glow that will help me heal… so

when it’s time for me to go out on a date it will be with just me myself and 

I won’t hesitate to celebrate because now I’m walkin with my

Spine and solar plexus straight…wait! Is that me in the mirror with a smile?

You better know it is and even though it took a while

My inner shine is gonna help me travel that extra mile…

Oh yeah, I’ll still meet brothers on my journey who will stop me and say,

“Hey, sistuh you got a nice behind!”

But this time when they see me… they gonna have to recognize my Shine!