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You Don’t Wanna Know
“…the instrument behind all this poetry…..yea…U don’t really wanna know bout the degradation it took to straighten my pen into this position…what it took to have the courage to wear my feelings on my sleeves….and to bleed words for a living.” Continue reading
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Strive
“I can hardly walk in heels, but mama taught us to reach for the sky tho they said we couldn’t afford it.” Continue reading
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Disappointments
Like Decembers steal color from the trees…like the sky when it erases the sun and we are left to do without the light…like life …wrapped and stuffed into bottles of deception…like whitewashed hopes and American nightmares… Continue reading
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“Don’t be stupid”
I have one simple message for you today: “Don’t be stupid”. What I mean is, don’t be foolish. Some of us are so “overtly intelligent” that we are unable to appreciate the little things, and the simplest of manners shoot past us like a bullet. We may know the intimate details of Pythagorean’s Theorem, but… Continue reading
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Language of the Broken Hearted
Felt it was my job to hold every heart in my hands like responsibilities so I cradled you…. until our tears became waves of passion too deep to carry in a bowl so they filled up our futures like child play did we let deception play its numbers on our skin? did we let it… Continue reading
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The Reward and The Journey
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” – Henry David Thoreau A few weeks ago I posted this quote to spark inspiration on behalf of my readers because I know how beneficial such inspiration is to me and I wish to bestow, if… Continue reading
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Grown Enough
She has a secret that she just does not want to grow up If she could just make it to 21 drink her liver half-dead and tell Hennessy he’s the one he makes her forget she’s had too much but maybe she just hasn’t had enough to make her realize that her friends are gone … Continue reading
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