Ego Tripping
In this poem, Nikki references a spiritual allusion. She uses words such as: throne, Allah, nile, and Jesus to explain her spiritual reincarnation into a “beautiful woman.” In the sixth stanza, Nikki writes “I turned myself into myself and was Jesus.” At first I thought this was very ignorant, however; she is not trying to take Jesus’s place. Giovanni implies that she found a new closeness within herself (that is similar to that of God and Jesus) that has changed her into a divine woman. She has created a new being that is to be seen from the outside and the inside as well. This poem can be viewed in many different ways but the theme is evident within the very last stanza. “I mean…I … can fly like a bird in the sky.” This simile ties the entire poem together. As she comforts herself through reassurance that she is new, the etc. punctuation suggests that she is unsure of her reincarnation of her new self. Finally, she decides that she is new and everlasting like a bird soaring in the sky. Being that she didn’t suggest a land animal, it recommends that she feels majestic and glorious as if no one can bring her down.
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