Def Jam Poetry Week :)

somebody can feel it ? lol

a "L" .

when i was seventeen , i ran across thin ice with a gallant spirit .

then i heard this brittle crack .

before i could inhale the harsh air in to fill my lungs, i was neck high in brick hard ice water .

with the help of God's warm, heavy hands . . . i was able to pull myself from the cracks of my icy demise .

I learned my lesson .

I tap my feet on frozen water before i trot .

I do not mess with thin ice when i can help it .

Def Jam Poetry Week :)

there are a gazzilion def poetry jam poems . these are just the ones that i can feel . ENJOY

increase the expanse of humanity .

i havent made new years' resolutions since ... maybe 6th grade ?
[you know, when they make you write them down on a pretty piece of paper and you only stick to it for about a week because you forgot what you wrote ?]

ever since i was twelve , i never wrote them 'cause they felt more like a chore than anything . BUT, lastnight i actually dreamed about my new years' resolution .

in one of my dreams, i was Africa and [randomly enough] there was this infestation of deadly spiders that were brought into Yoruba . These spiders would sink into the sand and just when you stepped on one, thousands of them would rise from under the ground . . . just w a i t i n g for something to attack . Little landmines .

The Yoruba people were terrified to leave their towns and villages , and SO was i. The key here is ... 'SO was I' . In my dream, i was literally terrified & that's when i realized that i need to have more compassion for other people . I felt a lot of guilt when i came to that conclusion , but then i realized something else . In order to feel compassion for another being , you have to go through the uncomfortable progress of putting YOURSELF in someone else's circumstances . When we pass by a homeless person, we make jokes so we dont have to feel compassion for someone else . When we see an overweight person , we like to tease them because we feel guilty about our disgust towards another human being . A handicapped person, a poor person, someone who is 'ugly' . . . we put up these guards so that we dont have to deal with compassion . . . a sense of humanity .

Starting now, i will consider other people's positions more closely and consider other people's perspectives before i rush to have an opinion about it . R E S O L V E the person inside, and the rest will come :)

so .

stockings wrapped around my legs , twisting and turning into a spiral of sexy .
guys pull and tug on the knuckles of my hands and i yank them quickly .
it's second, third & fourth nature to keep diamonds in my hands .

to keep the treasure i have .

ticking time bombs crept their way into my body through lips .
inevitable lines of attachment by my hips .
love can be equated to both birth & death . . . both beyond control .

love is lace & leather . . . overwhelming to say the least .
but we crave it .
but we spend our lives looking for it .
but we lick our lips when we get a glipse of it .

blah blah blah .

i just want things frozen , preserved the way they are .