Lost most days 

but you are here 

Showing me the way 

Showing me light 

My dark days are when i sometime forget you...you seem to always bring the shine

I've struggled and then I realize that because of you im still here 

Learning my lessons that need to be learned 

Praying all day long 

Praying that I can just make it through 

Praying that I will get to know you better 

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I don’t hate you I simply thank you

Thank you for showing me who I don’t want to be

I’ve drowned in my own soul because I thought I needed you to survive

Buried down my thoughts and feelings not realizing I wasn’t living

I was a child who cried and cried and kept crying until it hurt so badly

And when it hurt I didn’t understand why

Why turned into anger and anger turned int...

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Many nights I fall asleep with you in my head

The clear image of you is so vivid

The smell of you flows all through me

Everything feels so real almost like you are really with me at night

Holding me

Talking about our problems

I feel safe with you

I feel protected

I feel fearless

Just from laying with you

I look into your eyes and I see your truths

I see a man who h...

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Heart and mind chained 

Whole body locked in 

Wanting to break loose and free my mind 

Spread my arms and legs without the care in the world 

Speak what's on my mind 

Tired of being caged in 

Set me free 

Set my mind free

Set my body free 

Let me soar 

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A little girl with a dream

One dream since she came into this world

To be a daddy’s little girl

When does it happen?

When the brown eyed baby girl first opens her eyes and sees her daddy

They locked eyes but never made a connection

She grew

At times the days weren’t so bright

She was in fear; She didn’t speak to her daddy

She was scared of her daddy

Other children lov...

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Battling with the inner me and the outer me

Who I am on the inside is starting to bleed out

Insecure

Withdrawn

Hopeless

Scared

Believing in me has slowly drifted away

My heart is beating slowly

The love I have for me has changed most days I don’t know who I am

When I look in the mirror I don’t see the beauty anymore I see the things that I have issue with the things that...

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The tears stopped 

The feeling of my heart sinking into my back has faded away 

Fantasies of us...of what could be no longer play out in my head 

The thought of losing myself in your world will not be worth it 

The way I'm built i know when to walk away when the love is no longer 

When the love never was around 

Time and time again I told myself you will come around 

Waiting a...

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When I close my eyes 

I can picture us and you don't even know what you mean to me 

It's your love that I crave and until you are mine my heart will not behave

So when you let me, I can be that for you 

Giving you a love so pure my heart will be yours and your heart will be mine 

I've had my share of heartbreaks and you've had yours but I wouldn't want to hurt you and bring so much ...

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For 20 years I cried on this day 

I checked out on this day 

I hated this day 

I mourned on this day 

A little girl kept quite about this day 

A little girl felt ashamed on this day 

A little girl that was drowning in her own blood on this day  

A little girl had to pick herself up so her little brothers wouldn't see

A little girl no more

Dug up holes to bury it

This ...

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When your heart has butterflies 

Does it make the love more real?

Does it make love feel  more alive?

If it does, I love every minute of it

No worries at all when it comes to him 

Like Jill says " He loves me from my hair follicles to my toenails" 

And the beauty in that 

knocks me off my feet 

I see light when I stare into his eyes of truth, strength and love 

To feel s...

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That moment of letting go 

So much hurt 

Heavy on my mind

Heavy in my heart 

Aches in my back from the load

I opened up and shared a past 

Shared a heartache 

Shared a pain 

As difficult as it was...it was my truth 

A piece of me that wanted peace 

I can be 

I can find me 

I can breathe 

And I can live 

Saying hello to happy 

Saying goodbye to that pain

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Love

New love

Old love

Pure love

Different ways to say I love you

Different ways  to fall in love

Moments and memories all full of love

How could anyone forget?

The highs and lows of love

all the in betweens of love

Love cleanses your body

Love makes you blush for no reaseon

Love is special

Love makes you feel alive

Love can be oh so sweet and someti...

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A woman of many beliefs 

Never believed you would be the one

That understood all of her

Took many do overs to believe that she could love someone else

That she could understand someone else

Believing in the greater good of a man 

This man

Her man

Believing in trust

Believing in opportunity 

Believing in communication

Believing in the art of loving

A sista that ...

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A woman that came from a strong woman

I've admired this woman for so long

Skin so brown and Flawless

So very beautiful I wanted to look so much like you

Being little in grandma's home I always wanted to be with you

With such a beautiful voice I would always here you sing Mary J. Blige

My aunt is so fly

Even when down you still are fly 

Even when down your beauty is still so...

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What was good of me you took from me

Days I close my eyes and see your face

Many times you controlled my thoughts and feelings

Every confusion I've ever had came from you

Year after year thankful I've survived

But my mind wasn't free

Still not free

My faith in people was stolen

My faith in me was stolen

I was scared, I'm still scared

My strength is being tested

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To explain my aching heart it
Would take a million buckets to catch my falling tears
Tears coming from my Ancestors that fought so hard so we wouldn't have to 
Never imagined that what I've learned and what I was taught I would see 
Heart breaking
World shattering  
Seeing my brothers fall to the ground with their hands up 
Over what? 
Because being black in America is a crime 
for so lon...

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