Sunlight spilling over the edge of clouds
flowers clothed in fine silk
an assembly of family and friends
a kind word playing joy against the backdrop of your heart strings
or maybe just the way that words are sculpted by other writers, ever so elegantly contextualized
what in particular insists that you MUST write?
“Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps, till the legend, over steep ways to the stars, fulfills itself.” – W. C. Doane
“How do you tell a black woman, raising a son isn’t some type of inside joke …snickering at the soul of a single parent mother, dressing her son for graduation hoping he can make it across the stage, down the aisles or off the balcony quick enough to not be caught in his skin at the wrong time.” – Jasmine Mans
Truth, like everything, was born to do a job. To establish order and to cause enough conviction that it inspires change. Don’t expect it to apologize for that.
Deut. 28:68
“And Yah shall bring you back to Egypt in ships, by a way of which I said to you, ‘You are never to see it again.’ And there you shall be sold to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one to buy.” (1619)
Deut. 28:47-50:
“Because you did not serve Yah your Power with joy and gladness of heart for all the plenty, you shall serve your enemies whom Yah sends against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in need of all. And he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.”
“Yah brings a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, AS SWIFT AS THE EAGLE FLIES, a nation whose language you shall not understand, a fierce-looking nation, which shows no regard for the elderly nor show favour to the young,”
Isa. 47:6
92 year old woman gunned down by Police.
“I was wroth with My people, I have profaned My inheritance and I gave them into your hand. You showed them no compassion, you made your yoke very heavy on the elderly.”
Isa 42:22
“But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.”
Deut. 28:23
“And your heavens which are over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is
under you iron.”
Deu 28:37
Nigger, Negro, Black, Colored, Afro-American, African American
“Thus you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a mockery among all the peoples to which Yah drives you.”
Jer 17:4 “And you, even of yourself, shall let go of your inheritance which I gave you. And I shall make you serve your enemies in a land which you have not known, for you have kindled a fire in My displeasure which burns forever.”
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be…
…Now put foundations under them”
– Henry David Thoreau
Loving you is not a game
It will not play psychology
With language
Will not toss rhetoric from walls
Or hang deception on emotional hooks
That dangle temptation like foolish tongues
Will touch neither your body
Or your mind
Without permission
instead
Sincerity is the loudest whisper you’ve ever heard
Laughter fills your belly to the brim
With boldness
And devotion lays its head
In your bosom
Deed will play on the strings of vulnerability
Because when it comes to true love
Defenseless is the only way to be
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Honest
Real
Genuine
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