Black Hair in Heaven More Beautiful than Absalom with Joab’s Darts through his Heart and Hanging from the Tree
His hair was black like Satan’s when he swayed
Beside the thrones God and Christ and swirled
To simpering music while the millions prayed
In ranks of wings. His hair was black and curled.
His hair was black like dealers in cocaine
Outside the clubs and bars of Georgetown in
The midnight hours. His hair had Satan’s stain
Among them there where they were peddling sin.
His hair was blacker than the god upon
His throne where afterlife is blackened pale.
His hair was black like places where no dawn
Comes. Blackness such as this is wholly male.
..His locks of blackness were like myths from hell
….So beautiful they make the devils yell.
~ Phillip Whidden