Tag: pride

• December 31, 2023

  Polaroids of a Lighthouse

  I admit I’m not the same women in the Polaroids anymore. I had to change to survive. To hold onto to the light that I thought had died. I spent time fighting to survive. Every note I sung off-key. Every quit moment full of contemplation and maybes. I still fill up with thoughts or you.…
• February 9, 2023

  Lack of Trying 

  On gray days When sun rays can’t seem to reach me  I get sad from a lack of trying  Then denying  And whining  As I hear the call of my ambitions  Echoing through the distance  My pride responds back,  I’m tired, I can’t do that  It’s too hard, it’ll never work  If I try, I…
• June 19, 2021

  Talk

  Talk Brotha can we talk? No fists, no knives, no guns and no baseball bats There is a time and a place for physical combat But the youth need to see How level headed adults negotiate We must unify like flocks of birds Taken to the baby blue sky There can be no pride in…