Pandora Box

“Black woman, it never crossed my mind”

“Don’t you like black women?”

“The most beautiful woman even as a mortal is you but I never expected at the ends of the world, and …”

“In the skin of a black woman?”

“You will still be glorious, even as a blob fish.”

I smiled, knowing that the voice behind me couldn’t be more accurate. The voice of the only man I knew so well. The voice of a man I married.

“In all the cosmos, Aphrodite, that whoever sees her, hears about her or even dares speaks of her name instantly falls in love with her,” he paused with a tone that I wasn’t sure if it was a question or he had more to say.