LOVE

The most magical

Phenomenon we have on this earth

                      Transforming

Can't hold it

Can't see it

But we know it's present

LOVE

Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. ~1 Corinthians 13:7

Keisha

The Injustice Of It All

It used to be;

If you don't stand for something 

                    You will fall for anything

It has now become;

If you don't kneel for justice 

                    You will continue being enslaved to injustice

Then he went off from them about the distance of a stone's throw and knelt down and prayed. ~ Luke 22:41

Keisha

The Truth

Beat like Rodney King,

Assassinated like Fred Hampton

Chocked to death like Eric Garner

Prosecuted daily like Angela Davis

Left for dead like Emmett Till

Centuries later and William Lynch still prevails 

Imprisoned like Nelson Mandela

Never really free like Solomon Northup

And yet they still want to keep hate promoting statuses up?

Always having to look back like Harriet Tubman

No place to call our own, robbed of land like in Pierce City, Missouri

Tired of fighting just to survive like Mark Matthews

Making us cry out against injustice like Nina Simone

Blinded by the truth like Ben Carson

Unwilling to stand for anything like David Richmond, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair Jr., and Joseph McNeil.

Not afraid anymore like Dick Gregory

Our history is everyone's history

Our plight is everyone's plight

We didn't stop then

Why would we stop now?

Keisha

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. ~John 13:34~

Trapped

Enclosed in a world foreign 

Wanting more so badly

Trapped

Defeat won't defeat me

But I'm losing grip

Slipping away into a life

Is it meant to be

Is what I don't want to be meant for me

Crying doesn't help

Lashing out pushes them away…..faster

Don't go

I want you to stay

Please

Please

Oh Lord, please

Help me find my way

Live my truth

Beneath this skin

Under this soul

Beyond this heart

In the depth of this passion

I'm trying so hard to break through 

I'm trying so hard

To get out of this foreign world 

Blessed will be thy day

When a hand has reached my way

Right when my grips lost

Like suspense in that one movie

Saved at the last moment

I'm waiting

Who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began~2 Timothy 1:9

Keisha