Never let a good day go astray
by brooding over a bad yesterday.
Relax, go with the flow
and learn to just let it go.
What others think of you is none of your business,
though it helps you understand the value of forgiveness.
Don't worry about those who are quick to condemn.
The best thing to do is to simply ignore them.
We can never predict misfortune
or the adversity that life can bring.
So, it's best to have patience. Give it time,
because time heals almost everything.
Be sure to pay attention,
be vigilant and aware
that those who are unhappy
are those who want to compare.
Don't be easily lured
into feelings of dismay.
The only person you should try to outdo
is the person you were yesterday.
It's okay to have doubt
and not have things figured out.
Relax, stay calm, take care,
and know that, in time, you'll get there.
Yes, life can be full of slings and arrows
and overall "crappiness".
Just remember it's on you:
only you are in charge of your happiness.
Life is short. We're only here for awhile.
Enjoy it while you have it, and don't forget to smile!
It’s none of your business
What someone else thinks.
Your business is your business
And theirs is theirs.
Lots of things are like this,
Like what I eat or read, do or love,
But people have lost their way
And so look to others
To be them, instead of them,
Just being themselves.
(3/26/26)
Ladies worth are in the kitchen,
But this generation, Gen Z sold them out to men.
What's the logic?
Human can't live without food,
Yet ladies worth are now in men custody,
Because men in charge of the kitchen
You may ask, why am I so proud?
It's because that's what I worked hard for.
I'm proud of my craft, my worth, my art.
What I do is none of your business,
I'm just reaping what I've sown.
Seeing me write poems, create content,
Do spoken words, it's all my cooking, I don't beg you to eat.
Don't question my pride, it's earned.
I'm a product of my dedication.
The second I sit my fingers begin clicking the keys
What are you doing, I ask, if you please.
None of your business my muse says, typing away.
Another poem or two, cranked out, on this weird ass Thursday.
M W T N D S L T I P
1. Make peace with your past
So it won’t disturb your present and future.
2. What other people think of you
Is none of your business.
3. Time heals almost everything
Wait for it to become vision.
4. No one is in charge of your happiness
But you.
5. Don’t compare your life with others
And don’t judge them, you have no idea what
Their journey is all about.
6. Stop thinking too much
It’s alright not to know the answer,
It will come when you least expect it.
7. Look at yourself in the mirror and smile
You don’t own the world’s problems.
8. Trust God in everything you do
Because He has the correct answers.
9. If you say you love God
You also must love others too.
10. Practice what you believe
Because what you believe is what you practice.
Does it all matter?
That I am gay, I am a lesbian?
Does it all matter?
that I am transgender, I am Intersexual?
or rather Asexual?
tell me,
Why does it matter
how I walk,
How I dress,
How I speak.
Is my confidence threatening you perhaps?
That you want to crush my spirit so bad
with silly questions and remarks.
I am a she, she is a she
and the bravery of asking "who is the man in the relationship"
I mean...?
Can't you see the breast breathing out the chest?
He being a he, dating a he
and you still ask the same question " who is the woman in a relationship"
I mean...?
Do ya'll understand what sexuality is?
Do ya'll understand its fluidity?
However, it shouldn't even matter to you what gender anyone is attracted to
It is their life afterall,
Go clear your confusions in encyclopedias
In CAPS this is my conclusion,
It is none of your business who I attract,
and it is none of your business who I am attracted to.
Perhaps this is the kind of letter you have been waiting to recieve
SEXUALITY is FLUID.
It’s a first glance of injury, but a forming thought of illusion
Based on a history of empty answers and polished doubt
You try and trust in your instincts formed out of heavy confusion
The past interferes with future, by history you back out
Fear of falling for a trick leads to clouded reality
So you keep your mouth shut to a creature who cannot speak
It’s none of your business but you wonder what may be
A life built on tricks or a future truly bleak
You peek into your lifetime of unseen stupidity
A linear path of a heart faded by belief in lies
There are facts and memories that constitute timidity
That leave you to fixate on whether a bird flies
-s.grace
9/30/2023
I have heard this saying all of my life,
There is just no handbook, for any age!
I hear it still~ and it fills me with strife.
These Dudley-Do-Rights, please turn the page?
Get a life, and let us spread our wings!
We give you space to be who you are!
None of your business if we had a fling.
Smile and get a fresh cookie from a jar.
I DON’T KNOW
HOW TO ACT MY AGE
I’VE NEVER
BEEN
THIS OLD BEFORE!
~~
The child emerged from the Nile with a howdy hey hey
Pretending she did not know in any way
That a tiny culprit was on her head that day
Is that a spider monkey? Asked her cousin Stay.
None of your business she said, and they swam away.
The damage is catastrophic
The wounds are just too deep
The caffeine doesn't affect me
The pain just puts me to sleep
The weight that is upon my shoulders
It is just too heavy to bare
The things I can't do because I'm older
Leave me solemn and full of despair
The cure has not been discovered
So I'm doomed to die the lonely one
The ache in my laugh is colder
And my eyes sight just like a gun
The reason why I don't care now
Really is none of your business
The words from my mouth I swear now
I just do not like your existence
bmdavey@ 12/8/2022
Mesh
Of my window screen
In spring
Licked from the inside by our inherited old lady
She is made of bird bones
White whiskers
Wearing her oversized fur coat in the new heat
Pulled from mothballs
Tongue of sandpaper
Scratches and tastes
I don’t know what
Bitter pollen?
Invisible scents of fellow felines
Hunting shrews from under the garden?
Or lion mares of dandelions?
Perhaps
She is merely savoring herself
In the intricate weave of parallel atoms
Who wants a mirror at this age?
Without ears or eyes in her private world
She finds an in between
Alive
On the inside
And from the outside
My ancient mom hisses
None of your business.
These are my lips.
They are big full lips.
They need more open space to
wrap them selves firm around.
They don't fit onto smug potty, little
pretty faces pouty, these lips
are full wide and free thinking lips.
They don't like to be kept beholding, nor empty.
Wet these lips, have never been without,
they move up north when they want to
they head south when they need to.
Unless it's to you, is none of your business.
Now as I smile, as you wish it were you.
Mine are rich pink firm hard to grasp lips
and these mighty lips,
have sunk more than my share, of ships.
Lips that are magic.
Lips never loose.
Should you, could but come around too know them.
They would pull the oil right out of the ground,
and on a man, they will never be found.
Welfare is a type of business
That does without profit
But for some unfortunate people's benefit
Is that none of your business, sir
Oh, surely not
The sympathetic heart answers
What others think of you is none of your business,
Focusing your mind on your work will bring success.
None of your business she said sweetly.
This shocked me as I thought it was.
Gracious shut down was done discreetly.
Other relatives more subtle than my Cuz.
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