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Camouflage Not Needed

I vanish from sight Disappearing into the landscape Trapped in a world of my own design Caged without chains Your words are not enough Flood my brain Stay silent Awakened by the radio Emerge from the wood Your camouflage not needed Contribute I pondered for days For what For whom Stay silent Let it die Something changed yesterday Listening to voices Heard cause shared Through willing ears An evil geniuses design Floods the streets, a $5 high Women forgetting they Are mothers A great grandmother's praise Raising esteem and belief a Hashtag births a movement Of lives that matter Emerging from darkness Simple Pulling open a curtain Allowing light to fill the room I spent the day engaged in play 600 words not more One, a collection Something to explore Tupac's words flood my ears The words of a mother too Contribute share Not just for you I don't play the lottery Because I will not win But life is no lottery Or perhaps it is One won a long time ago Staying silent I choose to abandon To celebrate my voice In His glory That's just the way it is Things'll never be the same

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