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Backpack weighing me down but I’m still Walking down sidewalks smiling at will Late for class but caffeine wins again Line is too long I pray til amen Swing my book bag over my shoulder What will it feel like when I’m older Will my life mean m
Be grateful- I'm reminded of this every day or every time I meet the male gaze, every time I see my hips, my curves, or my girlish figure, I was blessed with at birth. Be grateful- you're a chameleon you blend in
Behind every strong black man is a stronger Queen.
Calling all Black Queens.
Do you know what I see?
INJUSTIC toward my Black Queens.
Behind every strong black man is a stronger Queen.
Calling all Black Queens.
Do you know what I see?
INJUSTIC toward my Black Queens.
Paint me in a place where I do not have to wake up and automatically check Twitter,
Where I can be free and not have to be glued to a radiation-emitting device.
It wont stop
does it stop
It keeps moving
Life, the carousel
When I gave my ticket of life
ripped at the seem of the rest of the paper
he took it and opened the gates
We've been used,
Abused,
Shot down in vain by the worst marksman in the game.
Abuse was our bane,
We were like slaves,
Contained,
Couldn't feel anything but pain,
let's thread a deadly web
through the stars in our hearts.
watch as they
walk away
sway into out hearts.
we'll write them a bed
and we'll bite off their heads,
and they're ours...