Wet nurse

 Wet nurse

I had to feed 

My massa’s child 

Not my own

My baby has been taken 

Away from me…

Tears streamin down 

My face but nobody care…

I was exhausted 

I wanted to sleep 

But I was forced to nurse 

A slaveowner’s baby….

My breasts swollen…

They said if I don’t take care 

Of their child, 

I’d get whooped….

I do what I had to do 

Pour that milk into that pale infant….

Had no choice 

I’m scared to run away….

So I stay and nurse all those white children 

While mine is at another plantation 

Or in an alligator's stomach….

I didn’t choose to be 

A wet nurse….

I never choose to be 

A mammy….

Since these mistresses 

Have no interest in raisin her kids 

They put it all on me…..

Not only i breastfed 

I taught them how to be kind

Yet there are times they called me nigger…

Their mother didn’t say a word…..

Imagine 

In a Slaveowner’s house 

Where you hear their kids being taught 

White superiority and racism 

By their parents 

While doin chores….

Does it hurt your bones?

That you’re somebody’s property 

Somebody’s object….

And not a human….

Kids learned that 

That falsehood 

And you gave them milk

From your bosom….

And you see 

Why this is part of 

Black women 

Has that  trauma 

Over the generations….

We were trained 

to serve white people

That includes 

Wet nursin white babies 

Instead of our own…..

Apparently 

We have better milk 

I wonder if white masters 

Were force black slaves to 

Breastfeed them as well…

It’s a role in rape….

The fact that white man 

Wanted to suckle her nipple, too

Like this is his entitlement…

He persuaded her 

Make her unwrap her clothin 

To get a taste…

She can’t refuse 

She can’t say no 

Feels like it’s no choice 

She cried 

and cried 

Creatin a condition 

That her brain responds 

To I have to 

I have to 

I have to 

I can’t say no…..

It’s like 

Wet nurse syndrome 

Like I have to breastfeed 

White babies, then my massa

While the wife became 

Red with fury…

Also 

White babies would cry 

Out loud for a black slave woman

Cos of the bondin and connection…

Yet she’s still miserable….

You can’t be happy 

When you’re forced to feed 

Somebody’s child…

You’re not a machine 

Your nipples ain’t objects

You’re a human 

You’re a woman 

You’re melaninated 

Back then 

You were treated like an animal…

They place inferiority complex into your veins

And turned you into wet nurse for your slaveowner

Even himself….

💔✊🏿💯©️ Kai C. 4-19-26