Superb people,
I’m surrounded by them
I peek into their success, screens serenading them with praise
Read MoreSuperb people,
I’m surrounded by them
I peek into their success, screens serenading them with praise
Read MoreI didn’t post my smile yesterday.
It didn’t feel right with all the pain.
But alas I woke to find another daughter gone today.
Read Morei am my freest self on sunday mornings
when i am full of sweetwater/lips wet
i see my soul from the front of a poem/and meet myself/at the end
i put my waist beads back on
Read MoreWe, who came to transform barriers into bridges,
steadying the foundation with melodic rhythms of blues unspoken,
bars spit in cyphers shatter illusions
America fed us as truth.
Girls became protestors
Peacefully marched and preached for our rights
Tried to buy movie tickets for integration than segregation
Read MoreI know why the caged bird still sings, Freedom rings, like liberty
What part of freedom is really free?
Read MoreWhen the mind is shackled and the pain lingers from the past,
are we truly free at last?
So many people have died, suffered, been persecuted, wrongfully accused,
Abused and misused in this land of the free,
Read MoreWild to me.
That when I envision free or freed me
I see myself enveloped by the warmest of warm waters.
Read MoreYou are a space I’ve traveled
Not a familiar memory,
but an epigenetic occurrence embedded in my DNA
Read MoreFreedom to be a tone rich of melanin / Accepting my genetic makeup with grace / Thick rooted locs and heavy with the masculine
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