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"Dear Future... I apologize for taking you for granted Haphazardly thinking you would always be there But now I cherish you Reach back for me... Just one more time And I swear I'll be more careful with your possibilities..." -Melanie YeYo Carter- #diaryofadayumpoet *This is a clip from one of my new poems*
"And we are so much more than music We are the motion behind the melody before the soul breaks and spills into notes So it comes as no surprise that we are noted That we are noticed in the God designed melanin of our skin That we are crowned Blues in the rhythm of a world who has forgotten how to feel beyond a computer screen So we scream in the way we walk like pain has never weighed heavy on our souls Like these concrete jungles have never eaten us alive in front of our mothers And turned some of our wayward fathers into crime scenes that Justice doesn't seem to see But still, we stand strong like miracles We climb mountains in our sleep that only bring us to more mountains But where most would give up, we plant mustard seeds of faith on our way up And make foot stools out of any tragedy that's trying to pull us down From slavery all the way to the civil wars among our brothers, We still know that we are so much more than a "Cash Money" click Or the "baddest bitch" We are miracles... From the crown of our heads to the soulful beat in our feet The fact that we still grow, breathe and exist is an act of defiance And for every stereotype others try to hang around our necks, we produce a walking contradiction... For every Lil Wayne, we give you a Malcolm X For every Nicki Minaj, we give you a Sunni Patterson For every Zane, we give you a phenomenal Maya Angelou A Toni Morrison... And some people still have the audacity to think our days of strength are over But no...because we are miracles” #diaryofadayumpoet |
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