I hope that joy never comes your way.
I hope your job never gives you a raise in pay.
I hope you never receive any good thing.
I hope your envy towards me is like a piercing sting.
I hope for you karma is just.
I hope all your big dreams turn to dust.
I hope that my success and financial gain
will make your soul feel great pain.
I hope my blessings become your curse
As I grow happier, your sadness gets worse.
You deserve a nice time chatting with smile,
But you did not choose a simple chat's style
That won't make you waiting long...
For replies like things are wrong;
Keeps a known stranger of you so hostile!
It's clear that you love me
But i don't understand why
After the things I have done
And all times I made you cry
I've let you down many times
And put those tears on your face
I hate myself for creating you pain
Along with all your disgrace
I cannot fathom how you felt
Each time your heart was broke
The pain and shame you hid
Behind depressions dark cloak
You stood up for me each time
Even knowing I was in the wrong
Your love must unconditional
And it's grace I do not belong
You should have someone deserving
Who won't be the reason you to cry
This is difficult because I love you
But it time that I say goodbye
I can't let myself break your heart
I've done it too many times before
I need to separate myself from you
So i can never sadden you anymore
Let me be enough for you...
Search for me
Pull me out
Of myself and self doubt
Snake charmer play your magic flute
Snake charmer play your magic flute
Make me believe you love me too
Reach way down deep
Past brick walls
Beyond pretend, to all my flaws
See the Me that I really am
Love me truly if you truly can
Love me truly if you truly can
[chorus]
Let me be enough to deserve the love you give
Let me wake with you each day, and each day let me live
Knowing you know me, yes, you do…
Your enough for me, let me be enough for you.
[verse]
Lift my veil
Reveal my face
Lead me to amazing grace
Overlook the wrong I don't mean to do
And I promise to love you like this too.
Strip me down
to the skin
As innocent as I was then
A new creature without any rust
And show me once again how to trust
Clean me up
with great care
Until I stand before you bare
Let the shame I feel finally go away
Let our lives begin anew today
Let our lives begin anew today
[chorus]
Let me be enough to deserve the love you give
Let me wake with you each day, and each day let me live
Knowing you know me, yes, you do…
Your enough for me, let me be enough for you.
everyone sometime in their life
may need a helping hand
if you fall from carrying a load
someone to help them stand
no matter if your a boy or a girl
or if your big or small,
never be too big then you are
to ask for help at all,
if you feel down and feel real sad
no matter what it may be,
find a way to get it all out
keeping it is never healthy,
never think that life is so bad
to think about suicide,
never let anyone or thing take
your dignity,self respect, or your pride,
if your pain comes from your heart
caused by a girl or a guy,
remember they are only one person
theres billions more to try,
if you know you have been true
to them but mostly to you,
then know in your mind,heart,and soul,
its them that dont deserve you.
Pining for long, O longing heart,
If smacked art thou by a beauty,
If rocked by her assets thou art,
Should any charming face sway thee,
Earn first good deeds her to deserve,
Desires on their own seldom serve.
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Translation (sestet*) | 24.08.2025 | beauty, heart, women
*Wonder, if it can be called a Sestetto Rima-- iambic meter with a rhyme scheme of ABABCC.
Note: Here is a verse from Bhartrihari’s Shringaara Shatakam (hundred verses on love and romance). This verse is in Vasanta-tilakaa meter. It says: if ye cherish a beauty, she must be deserved first. Here is the transliteration of the verse in Sanskrit:
Tasyaah stanau yadi ghanau jaghanam cha haari,
Vaktram cha chaaru tava chittam kim aakulatvam |
Punyam kurushva yadi teshu tava asti vaañchaa,
Punyaih vinaa na hi bhavanti sam ihita-arthaah || 20 ||
I think it’s best that you just go away
I’ll take peace over you on any day
I am growing in ways I never thought I’d see
Being away from you is helping me grow into the woman I want to be
I am loving the freedom and peace I have in my life
Everything just feels so right
I’m so happy that I’m feeling better about myself
So better to the point where I’m not dealing with foolishness
I am content with myself and loving all of myself
I finally realized what I deserve
It’s someone who chooses me everyday instead of someone who picks and chooses when they want to
I love being away from you because I can see everything so clear
I can see that you never loved me and that’s fine but move out of the way so the one for me can love all of me
It’s what I deserve and what I deserve is someone better than you
We Don’t Deserve
I read the stories
see blood in the margins,
names etched in shame.
Man’s hand, steady with the knife,
shaking only when called to kindness.
History isn't history.
It's breath on the mirror.
It fogs up, then clears,
only to show us
the same haunted face.
We burn what we didn’t build.
Crush lives under flags
we barely understand.
Skin becomes a reason.
Love becomes a crime.
And faith,
once meant to lift,
becomes the rope and the fire.
Tell me
how did difference become danger?
How did colour, creed,
or simply being
become enough
to justify a bullet,
a cage,
a silence?
There are godless things
done in God's name.
Things that make the ground
want to close its mouth
and never speak of us again.
We are a blot,
a bruise on this planet,
spreading still.
The trees ask nothing.
The rivers give everything.
The sky forgives daily.
But we
we do not deserve
a single leaf,
a drop of rain,
a shaft of sun.
We are a cruelty
that dressed itself in kingship
and called it civilization.
You Deserve Better
You deserve a better man.
Leave soon as you can.
Leave it all behind.
A newlife when you can shine.
You went down a dark road.
You don’t owe him anything any more.
You have been used long enough.
Move on and be tough.
Your body doesn’t belong to him.
Stand above this.
You need to be set free.
Look above and believe.
It was never meant to be.
You did nothing wrong you see.
You gave someone a chance.
He took you for granted.
Under appreciated.
Tomorrow can be a brighter day.
I’m sorry that you picked the wrong guy.
Too many fights.
Time to let go.
God will open up a new door.
The many suicides of black men
Black men deserve love too
Even if its just a simple 'I love you'
The world tells them they have to be tough
But enough is enough
If you're complicit
In being a witness
Of their mental health issues
Don't be confused
If they choose suicide
Don't be surprised
I mean you didn't care when they were alive
So dont you dare cry
How many times are we going to let this happen?
How many times will we as a society ignore them?
Because our black men deserve better
They deserved to be treasured
Because if we don't we'll lose them forever
As a society we can let them suffer
But we can be their protectors
Black boys deserve flowers too
Black boys deserve flowers too
Not just at their funerals
Not when they're already gone
Not when we are just mourning them
Black boys deserve flowers too
Not just laid at their tombstone
Not just because you feel guilty
Not just because you couldn't love them fully
Black boys deserve flowers too
This is long overdue
They deserve it for just existing
They deserve it when they're hurting
Especially when they are suffering
Black boys deserve flowers too
Even just as a thank you
Even just to say I love you
A way to say I appreciate you
Because black boys deserve flowers too
Storms don't end quickly
Without space, we cannot heal
Love yourself with time
you're so majestic, i don't deserve you
you're so grand, i don't deserve you
your heart is nothing but pure
and i fear my gray one will infect yours too
my love can cross borders but yours can cross universes
i hope the sun smiles at the brightest for you
you're kind, i don't deserve you
you're the muse i don't want to hurt, i don't deserve you
Startled by the sight of snail tracks weeping down your skin
The path of misery died and dried up cracked upon your chin
Slow motion the eyes tumbled through a blue hypnotic state
The grin the evil grin that smiled through you towards your fate
Shackled is the pain that's forever locked up inside your spirit
Hollow is the echo of the drum, here they come, but you fear it
Hope is just a tiny measurement in the distance of your belief
The darkness you so often treasure because it helps hide all of your grief
Is anybody out there, anyone, echoes through the valley of death
Suddenly there's no more whispering as you kiss me with your last breath...
bmdavey@10/2024
Author Dana Redricks
April 20, 2024
I deserve to be happy, most of my life I have put myself on the shelf making room for everyone else.
Just once I want to feel loved, and embraced, so I rise to take a stand to love myself and allow someone to love me back, and take my place, as I cross the line to finish my race.
Everyone deserves to have someone to share their lives with and for once I want that someone to be me, I want to rise above my sorrow to see the dawn of a brand new tomorrow. I just want to be free.
I want to spread my wings and fly to live the life I've always dreamed. I deserve to be happy and do something special just for me.
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