Category: 09th

Black Sunrise

The Black people have been through so much.
We don’t even give ourselves enough recognition for what we’ve accomplished.
A lot of people hate what we have done;
They are astonished if we African Americans come together and fight,
Not with violence, but with our minds that are bright.
We are judged by the color of our skin and talked down on
As if our kind is a sin.
We have so many people who fight for our kind
But we don’t have all the outlets to speak our mind.
We want change,
But we are threatened by some white people to stay in our lanes
We try to love the world and be ourselves
But we are played out like records and put on the shelves.
If we want this to change
We must start now and not let the other kind put us down
Must be in charge for us Black people
Justice for us color people.

Over the Years

One wave
“Are women maybe human beings?”
The right to vote
Susan B. Anthony and Ida B. Wells
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Seneca Falls
1920, 19th amendment
Two waves
The Feminine Mystique
Equal Pay Act
Jane Roe won her case in 1973
Credit cards and mortgages
The problem that has no name
Three waves
27 women in Congress
Riot Grrrl Manifesto
Punk rockers fighting against sexual harassment
Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, Breeders
Bragging, screaming
They want revolution
So do I
Four waves
#MeToo
Intersectionality
Equity? Equality? Both
Gen Z knows what’s up
I dress how I want
10 Ways to Make Sure You’re Safe in an Über
Emma Watson, The Squad
Speak up, speak out

i had an epiphany

Sometimes i think you are my hiraeth
My true home i can’t ever quite reach
I would say its a delusion but
I know what’s real

Whenever i’m near you its bittersweet
Like a book ending with a cliffhanger
Like one big ‘to be continued..’
Time feels ephemeral and like its running out
But you’re the only thing i want to chase

You remind me of lilacs and gardenias
The smell of wildflowers and hope
Old poetry and cool autumn evenings
You remind me of love

Somehow i think you’re celestial
Born from a celebration of the universe
An ethereal woman who thrives from sunsets
A force greater than Mother Nature
Someone who has captured my heart

The other day i had an epiphany
I know that you’re my only soulmate
But what breaks my heart
Is i know i’m not yours

The Prelude

Three hours away, the bus arrives at the meet.
I try to think of anything but the race.

Two hours away, runners that have finished, all of them elite,
Walk around with triumph on their face.

One hour away, it’s time for me to prepare.
Off go the long pants and slippers covered in morning dews,
A tried and true process starting, that ends with a prayer.
And on go the tank-top, the shorts, and the familiar shoes.

Ten minutes away, my blood running cold, I walk to the start.
My teammates, with similar grave expressions, are all preparing;
Stretching, jogging, trying to keep our will from falling apart.
Preparing both mentally and physically, for the hardship vastly approaching.
A man appears with a firearm in his hand, signaling for us to step up to the line.
“Runners on your mark!”
I shake off a chill that runs down my spine.
A quick wish is uttered for safety and haste on the journey about to embark.

*POP*
The gunshot pierces the blank silence, now torn
Disrupting the blissful calm before the storm.
*BRING*
The electronic chime of my watch starting
Its owner leaving the line and quickly departing
*ROAR*
The crowd, last to react, roars and engulfs my fears
Thundered over only by my heartbeat, which is pounding in my ears.

Unintentional Influence

Blue sea on the large white cloud on the large grassland
Dry twisted tress
Colors are light
And looks like it might fall

Even so, the green grass and light brown ground looks fine
On fine grassland
She falls from sky

She uses dry twisted tress for firewood
To warm her cold body
She picks up the cobblestone
That was useless before she picked it up
Put on a little fire in large grassland
The fire was WARM
To large grassland, To her

The fire went bigger
But she didn’t know the risks of fire
The fire started to spared in large grassland
Green grass and dry twisted tress started to burn
The river went dried out, the land cracked even more
The cloud changed to color black on the sea covered color gray

She saw what she done she fell in to deep sorrow
She climbed on the white cloud, and weeped
Then all the fire vanished to white smoke
And also she flew away with wind

The large grassland was very sad, but it told to the wind
“She didn’t know, but tell her that she gave me a lots of Influence on me
That she came down like a scud and soaked in me slowly”

It’s coming form my heart

Every time I look her face
The voices of doubt gets small

Every time I walk to her
The sound of train coming form distance
pit-a-pat
The feelings coming from my heart gets bigger

Every time I get closer to her
The sound of train gets faster, and closer
pit-a-pat, pit-a-pat,

A wise she’d stay still
As my whole world stopped
But

As if I stopped with my world
Even one finger doesn’t tick

Then she cracks my fragile world
Step By Step, she breaks the world

I don’t know Is it
the disappointment of feelings coming form the heart
Or
did I realized the feeling coming form my heart is like a
The candle shivers in sigh
Or
I’m just sad, but I can’t feel it

Too close

We were too close stay far from each other

I thought you were ready
Color the world with blue
To make your tears to fade

I would do everything to hold you again
I thought I was ready
Color the world with gray
To fill it with your shadow
To do meaningless regret

We were too far to love each other

My Ship

Sometimes,
You aren’t enough.
The storm rages,
The waves grow rough.
You pilot your ship,
As best you can,
But then you slip
And run aground.

Sometimes,
You feel so free,
Like you could do anything.
You could be anything you wanted to be.
You open your sails, unafraid,
And sail away.

Sometimes,
You’re all alone.
No crew to assist you,
No port to call home.
The swells seem infinite,
Cold and blue.
Your ideas seem finite
When the endless possibilities
Are suddenly lonely.

Constantly
There is a force, guiding you on
Call it love, call it God
It will never blow wrong
It will steer you home
Wherever home can be found

So don’t give up hope,
Because like a ship out at sea
You’ll never be deserted
Even if you can’t see.