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Death By Inertia

For more than 10 years she sat at home in a state of inertia, longing for the things of the past, hoping that the past could be her future. In doing so she gave up so many opportunities to discover and become who she was meant to be. The wallow of self-pity that took her into the depts of slothfulness was unmistakeable except she could not see it.

How to climb out of this pit of lethargy and passivity? watching the world go by day after day living a life smothered in the putrification of pity and self-loathing. What would it take to wake up and make a change? To smell the coffee - to launch oneself into being the best that she could be.

Only forgiveness of self would allow this to happen. Forgiveness for the errors made in life, forgiveness for doubting herself, forgiveness for not listening to conscience and that inner part of the self that tried to prevent her from making mistakes that would shadow her for the rest of her life. Only her clinging to her creator would allow this forgiveness to work its way through the morass of guilt.

The creativity that lay to waste within the slothful being had to be awakened. Books lie inside of you, children and future generations lie inside of you, love unsurmountable lies inside of you. Craft projects lie inside of you, your PHD lies inside of you and the Doctor of Business Administration lays in side of you. You are the seed through which generations will be blessed. Wake up my love and nuture your being. You have change to make yours latter years count as you become the best of you.

No one can do this for you my sweet, all the sewing projects you dream of, complete them ! All the poetry within means that you are pregnant with purposed! For the rest of your life I want you to beat the crap out of every day that is given to you in search of your best self. Wander no more into inertia and slothfulfess but feel the hand of God in your life as he walks with you, leading you into purpose. You are blessed my child, you are forgiven my child, you are loved by me and my holy angels my child. We will continue to be with you, to guide you and to strengthen you until you find your best expression of yourself.

Like I breathed the breathe of life into my first creations, so I breath my breath of life into yoru days and nights. I breath my grace into your lifte and call death to the inertia that followed lyou. Instead I give you beauty for your ashes, I give you life and purpose, I give you strength and and giftings beyond anything you can imagine. Go out and live life to the fullest, go out and be the perfect expression of Gods creation. Go out and be the best you you can imagine with creativity and the value of your worth in my eyes uppermost in your mind.

GO OUT AN BE BLESSED AND BRING DEATH TO THE INERTIA THAT TRIED TO STIFFLE THE LIFE I HAVE IN STORE FOR YOU.

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Broken

Never give your love to a broken man 
Broken in spirit, he feels there is no hope,
Nothing to offer but superficial affection
He can spend time with you, but he is not with you,
Spends money on you, but he is far from you.

His heart is broken, mind is broken,
Stuck in the past, stuck on broken.

Oh, but he knows how to criticize well,
He can heap fiery coals where necessary,
Even to lament the vestige of racism.

Cause his tongue ain’t broken.

Broken in spirit, he can do many things
But none of them permanent.

You may conceive his children,
But you cannot keep them, 
For he is far too broken to be accepting.

Broken man crippled by fear,
He’s been broken so long, 
He does not care.

To survive my dear, you must let go,
Cause you’ve been set free.

So goodbye and good riddance
Cause being broken is not your portion.

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Tomorrow

TOMORROW


I caught myself thinking about my yesterdays
My life and how it used to be 
The people I met, the places I had been,
The beauty I had seen and 
Yesterday just seemed to be where I wanted to be

But then I spoke to myself because it had seemed
As if my today’s and tomorrows were going nowhere
Since they were hung up on being in yesterday

We have since made a decree
That we would all agree to, me myself and I 
There would only be todays’ and tomorrow’s
Where we would focus so much on enjoying today
That there would be no time to focus on yesterdays

We all appreciate yesterday for the joys that it brought to us
But missing out on the joys that I could have today would only bring misery tomorrow
So we are now focused on enjoying every moment of today
Being who we always wanted to be
Going where we always wanted to go
Enjoying the people we wanted to be in our tomorrows

So bye bye yesterday, you thing of the past 
All my tomorrows bloom before me 
I see sky’s of blue, red roses too
And I say to myself what a wonderful world of 
Tommorrows

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I Pod

THE ‘I’ POD

What do you do when life becomes all about I and Me?  What do I want, what do I need, what would I like to be when I grow up.  What kind of life do I want, what do I aspire to be.

How can I profit from this world, how can I benefit from this life? So I live in this Pod consumed by all the things that I want. 

Peeking out only momentarily to witness the sufferings of others.  D murder rate, D kidnapping rate, D mortality rate, D child abuse rate. And just the mere thought of the happenings around the I, send I back to the pod.

But is my Pod and I control what comes and goes within that pod, and oh what a beautiful Pod it is.

It’s my pod, the ‘I’ POD.

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Inheritance From My Father

Inheritance from My Father

It is with grateful heart I traverse this way,
For the respects I wish to pay,
To my Daddy who lived his whole life with attitude,
But it is for those aspects of him that I feel the deepest gratitude,
His loud and brash personality,
A man with a low tolerance for foolery,
Not afraid to call you out on on your deeds,
if he did not agree
Never afraid to stand alone 
As he gave voice to what mattered,
Always in favor of the underdog.

His love of all this music has been passed to me
His jaunts on the trombone, melodies on the sax or harmonica,
some of which I never appreciated until I came of age
Herein lay the man whose creativity knew no bounds
From jouvert portrayals to carnival bands
right to the gastronomic creations weaved in the kitchen
Some of which he shared with the community
All testimony to his spirit of entrepreneurship
I can only love and show this deep appreciation for 
the man who now resides as part of me 
and my creativity.

The things handed down to me,
Much of which I did not ask for
and took some time for me to explore
but for now I cherish the things that make me proud 
and even allows me to stand out in the crowd
My inheritance that maketh me rich
For which there will be no switch

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Mind the Gap

Mind The Gap

Mind the gap of your mind
   The place between what you have
      and that which you really need
         Mind the gap of your heart
            The place within that relationship of what is
                and what it ought to be
                 Of that which no longer serves you
                    yet you continue not to see
                       Mind that gap of who you wish to be bound to     
                       and he who longs to be bound to you
                  he bridged the gap in between your mind and soul
             and left no space in between
        the reality of your happiness
      and what you dreamed it would be.
     Mind the gap of who you have become
  the journey can be freeing as you explore and manifest
that which you long to be.

Mind The Gap

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The Wish

The Wish

Or, so you wish you were thinner, 
But some would wish to be thicker,
you always wanted to be brighter
Lord why I was not faster

But really I wish I was richer
And cooler
And prettier 
And why can’t I be bolder

Many wish for better jobs
Wish they had stayed in school
Ah wish my parents had money boy
I always wanted to be a dancer

So one stands in this lonely place
And see all who made something of themselves
And I stand here ‘wishing’ it was me

But the only wish that ever come true 
Was the wish that I made that people will see 
the essence of the true ME.
And yuh know what?
They did see!!!

They see all the flaws
And they see the job I did not get
The money and fame that I don’t have
They see the education I did not take
And they say they wish I did

It is then I started to see all the world's flaws
So my new wish for all of “we” is that we will just “be”
And really show them ‘Who we be’
I can’t run no faster, and I can’t be no prettier than I already is,  
we don't need to be thinner, some can't get any fatter, 
and I can't be more beautiful inside cause i already AM, 

but I certainly don’t need d world to accept me for "who I is" or the
Beauty that I be 
because my WISH came true  
the wish to be ME.  

BOY I real SATISFIED WITH D ME, that I CAME TO BE.

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Black Beauty

BLACK BEAUTY

Beauty is said to be in the eyes of the beholder,
But why do I need to wait to be “beholden”?
For those of us who are bolder, and know better,
Whose skin tones and body types do not fit 
society’s vision and portrayal on mainstream media,
of the beauty “beheld”,
We cannot wait to become the perfect complexion,
The perfect height,
The perfect weight,
The perfect body size,
Or to be acknowledged as such,
Because our beauty belies such “norms”, 
You see our black beauty is not just visual,
It’s the beauty that represents the depths of the soul,
And the capacity to love,
And radiates into that glow of our complexions,
bridging the full spectrum of black, 
dark browns to light browns,
Beauty that encompasses our levels of intelligence,
that demand that the mind be massaged and engaged.
It’s demonstrated in the ability to navigate challenging circumstances,
the ability to smile and nurture even in the face of all odds.
You see Black Beauty, my beauty,
does not need to wait to be “beholden”, 
my beauty is not “just” skin deep, 
for even when I’m 90, old and grey,
the black beauty will still be rocking that “soul beauty”,  
the rays of sunlight will radiate my soul, 
and reflect upon my face,
I “wager” that black beauty withstands the test of time,
The older black beauty gets,
the more beautiful she becomes,
cause black beauty will never be done.

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The Passport

The Passport

Sometimes we think people and our significant others are going to be our passports,
Passports to love, passports to happiness, 
Passports to the beginning of families that we may have always craved,
or lives we always imagined in distant countries
passports to new experiences and
emotions we may have never felt.

Instead we find them to be passports to regret and emptiness,
Futility, deceit and even death.
They remain unaware of the hopes and dreams we have pinned to them,
They disappoint and even distress to the point that 
they become PORTS we now have in our past
A port we seek to forget for now we realize 
All the while that inside of us lies 
The very thing we have been seeking outside of self
“The passport to our own happiness”

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I Am

I am beautiful,
I am being true to me,
I am treating me with love,
I am honouring me and giving to myself the time I deserve
I am able to say when I need to be alone,
I am able to retrospect and deal with issues 
that alert me to their presence
I am kind to me, as a result I can be kind to others
I am the love of my life
I am mindful of my health,
I am giving my body the nutrients it deserves,
I am always in awe of my beautiful mind
The creativity that bubbles forth
It gets me out of challenges in the most inspiring ways
I am in awe of the love that the universe bestows on me
That allows me to bless those that come to me with my words and deeds
I certainly can appreciate the I AM's, that 
I AM TO ME!!!!!