During winter a Flower bloomed White and pure just as you’d assume She was told to keep her nectar to herself As one day bees would be fighting over her stem The tulip’s birthday party is where it begun Everyone from the garden came around as one As the night began to approach and the… Read on
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In the beginning We were together as one Living united under kingdoms Flourishing beneath our African sun Like the devil in disguise Greed conquered the motherland Gold melanin bodies Soon held captive by foreign command Across the seas And through the storms We sailed into a misery Lasting centuries long This hell on earth Birthed… Read on
I am the caramel drizzle I am the mocha found in your coffee I am the rich soil I am the cocoa bean found in the chocolate I AM THE DARKER BROTHER & SISTER that society criticizes I am the creator Lewis H. Latimer, Garrett Morgan, George Washington Carver, Elijah McCoy, Marie Van B. Brown,… Read on
I want to express me. I want my potential to tower as high as a tree, To give me the power to overcome all adversity, I want to express me. I wish they all would see me as a person of potential and not when I’m gone just another movement to take another knee, Wouldn’t… Read on
Twenty-two degrees; The doctor is certain when he says I think it’s scoliosis Sometimes I sit, I am a bird on a traffic line, completely unbothered by my surroundings Or a mole so deep under the ground I don’t notice my surroundings in the first place And while I sit, I think and dream and imagine… Read on
When it snows down here, Everyone is amazed Like it’s something magical and new But Maybe it is. The pure, pristine white flakes Floating Floating Drifting Sweeping Down And Down And Down To join our messed up world Softly blanketing us in a little hope, a little happy. A little magic A little wonder. But… Read on