liberation
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If it is God who chooses leaders, then he has failed.
My people are starving. Others are dying
Because of the Man He chose for us.
Silently I prayUnderneath the starsFor a lover that will stayErase all the scarsLeft on my heart by othersWho left without hesitationAnd let me be smothered
Therefore, what I hope to find
In such a reflection-Shows a glimpse of the neglected-Unspoken agendas and desires of perfection-Within thine inner self begins the wrestling-Scattered thoughts lost amidst chaos of time-
There are moments when I feel the injustice to my gender more prominently
When I am told in my job orientation that my attire is restricted for the men’s comfortability
Within human introspection comes a price,
A revelation to the darkness of the mind.
Venturing inside requires the roll of the dice,
Are you ready for something not so kind?
I refuse to submit to the brainwashing of
Faith.
I am liberated through
The world;
I am limited by
Religious culture.
To live, I thrive off of beautiful things like
I don't need
Humanism
To be good, I require only
God.
I don't need man-made distractions such as
Technology and modern advancements
To live, I thrive off of beautiful things like
It’s 4 PM here in Georgia,
And I’m enjoying time with my friends
We’re studying and laughing together,
As we enjoy diversity through our peaceful lens.
Liberation,
She called it,
Discharging pet
Lovebird from the
Foreign shackles
Named commitment
Text me when you're home
Safely
Did you eat?
I can buy you something
Gave you all my love
All I could give
But what I couldn't do was
Forgive
12/28/2016
As flesh clad together turn in my mind,
Something I’ve abstained from and so I find,
The "land of the free" made a slave out of me
My people chained body and mind
While they "progress" we get left behind
We try to find our nitch, but are too dark for them to make room
My mussel, gaping, black, and blue
was forked open
but time
tequila
and tension
stick us back together.
I sit in the buckle of the bible belt
Fighting to merely exist
As white men in stiff suits
With smiles that never reach their eyes
Sit in a room in DC
Sometimes it is easier to smile,
To tell everyone lies,
Rather than the problems we hide.
I know 'cause I've been there,
In many ways I still am.
So then why on earth do I participate
There's something about this need to want things I'm never likely to have.Something about these patients, because I often wait, waiting on some miracle to liberate me from the misery of my dreams;
I dream miserably.
Their owners were scared of mental liberation,
What could only be found with an education.
Forced ignorance squanders original thought
Lowering expectations, fueling blind spots.
I love that you
stand taller than me
your soul
is the closest thing to heaven
I've ever felt
God knew that
so he built you
accordingly
In Yellow and Stripes of Black
They did fight for freedom, did they
They were considered to be Dirty
They were killed,
Brothers, Sisters
My Brothers, Sisters
They were,
I knew that when the going gets tough most of the tough gets going
you see they're robbin' us
leavin' us with broken promises
lying to U.S. open your eyes they're not trying to liven us
it's so unjust
What do I find awesome?
Education and the fact that it helps me blossom
Everything from reading to color coding notes
Reading lets me discover new worlds and teaches me cool new words
People see my gifts and abilities,
And they say,"Consider yourself lucky."
They tell me I'm lucky,
Because I believe in a God that tells me I' free,
I'm born into a family of white priority,
She formed from cosmic dust.
A ball of hollow gas with a dash of wonderment and arrogance.
She has long flat feet that used to dance to the heartbeats of drums
Her thighs are like logs
Thick and sturdy
I can see you
feverishly stabbing away at your keyboard
the glare of the computer screen illuminating your countenance
Trying to be defined by who I am in your eyes,
But what are my definitions,
What are my standards?
When I look in your eyes I see a misrepresentation of the girl that I am
I am a woman,
There is nothing to be ashamed of.
I bleed once a month, sometimes twice
I have breast, hips, thighs and booty.
I am a woman,
There is nothing to fear.
I am the accused lesser sex
Get off of me—
You dreadful chains,
You sable smog.
You make my life miserable—
So uncomfortable.
I want to see the world.
I want to feel God's breath on my skin.
There happens to be a list of forbidden words,
It is as if our mouths are spilling turds.
"Turds" happens to be another one of those words.
Why can I not call my teacher a curd?
I like to let my imagination
run wilder with every
darker shade of the night sky,
as the sunset melts away
onto the other side of the world,
like sherbet ice-cream
left on the counter for too long.
I am a real piece of work
And that much about me will never change
I’ll change the world with words
The same way you changed me
You made me a worrier
Excuse me
DIG ME OUT OF THIS FUCKING GRAVE!Stop burying me in past memories,Forgotten conversations,Guilty Temptations,The unending persuasionsTo take you back-
NO!
We are half of our planet's population.
With a world wide desicion, we could stop new human creation.
We are your mothers, daughters, wives and sisters.
To heal, must find joy in the little thingsto reveal, must love in many different waysTo be tired, to be alone, that is the solitude that comes as a result of the forgetting to breath sometimes, part.
My name.
Since the day I was born,
My destiny was owned by others.
They gave me that name,
Tied to their rotting family tree.
I hated to hear it,
For it only meant trouble.
In all adversity, I shall always thrive,
And without you here, I will shine.
You will not stop me for I am still alive.
My heart and my soul will be kept mine.
I need answers
I need prayers
I need sympathy
In this dying misery
I need affection
I need hope
I need this wind to tell me which way to go
So come with me now
A sapling restrained from its dirt prison
Wanting to sail across the vast seas
Yearning for liberation
The eyes, The cries,
The petty grins, and truthful lies.
They stand before me
as i try to rise
for i despise, these snicker flies,
eating away at my gracious prize.
for it is mine
it is quite devine
Oh, her future burns,
Burning bright
Like a pyre for god,
Burning bright,
As her past burns.
She is the phoenix.
You are loved.
Forget what mama said
when she was angry
because you didn’t agree.
Turn away from that
boyfriend you had,
the one who broke
your heart and promised
He didn't even know me.
he passed me by like a river's torrent
smoothly, he grumbled, "Nice shirt FAG!"
Guns don’t kill people
People kill people
People with guns kill people
People for fun kill people
People with psychotic dispositions kill people
People with the wrong mental composition kill people
Hours go by so slow yet weeks string past
One minute you're at the cafe sipping tea
The next you're on a boat fixing the mast
But not everyday is an adventure out at sea
"Freedom for women!" they shout
These feminists few
But how can they not see that she's a feminist, too?
So many spaces are unsafe
black children are shot
little girls are raped
young women are beaten
Inside it controls.
Inside rage.
Inside pain.
Inside bursts of tears.
Silence.
It hides in the chaos-filled voices that live in life.
See the girl who sits and cries.
She needs protection.
She is just weaker.
This is a man’s world.
His ego is the leader.
He believes he’s in charge.
Speaking of his tyrant wisdom,
He gives orders at large.
I will not.
No more yes dears, no more
"Of course honey"s,
No more martinis and foot massages.
Boss me around all day,
But don't you think I should have my say?
So what if you are male and I am not?
We also have minds, thoughts, and dreams we have sought.
I am disgusted by the way you degrade me
I want a boyfriend
but I also want feminism
Does that make me so awful?
Does it make me any less of the woman that I am?
Does it make me wrong?
No.
you’re getting married saturday.
you’re marrying the man you deemed better
than my father, the man you figured was
more suitable for you than
three children, a loving husband,
a house with large windows
