It is so easy to forget how awesome you are in a world where everyone is “#livingmybestlive” on the internet. But I need you to tell yourself each day that you are not a mistake, and the fact that you still have air in your lungs means you have a significance.
DO NOT EVER DOUBT YOUR WORTH.
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TW: I listened to a snippet of a conversation on instagram last week and the lady was telling the guy “YOU DO NOT WANT TO DIE, YOU JUST WANT THE PAIN TO STOP”. A lot of people believe that ending it all is the only way, but it is not. The one thing I am absolutely certain about in life is that there is never just one way. Please do not hurt yourself in the bid to make the pain stop.
We all have moments of stagnancy in our lives, where we are neither moving forward nor moving backward, this can be “bloody” as my dad would say. Because it is very difficult to realize that you are stuck. Here is a little something I wrote. Have fun.
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When was the last time you looked in the mirror and said “You are beautiful and smart and precious and wondeful. You My darling are amazing”
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This is not an offensive poem, but a call to reality, those little comments and reactions to lightskinned people as though they are counterfeits.
DO NOT JUDGE ME BY STANDARDS YOU WISH NOT BE JUDGED BY.
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Life is in stages, never give up, even when it looks like it isnt working. Keeping pushing through
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Compliment does not equate consent, That your eyes can see my beauty, Gives you no right to exploit it, Didn’t your mama teach you, Look, but don’t touch. I am woman, intricacy personified, Playing the teams of; Frailty and strength, Rigidity and leniency, Wisdom and foolishness, Beauty and grotesque. Beauty is a state of mind,
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THE GREATEST LOVE STORIES BEGIN AND END WITH YOU He loves, he loves me not, A dying circle as the petals dance to the beat of the wind Kissing the floor with the hopes of reincarnation, Why can’t you say you love me? Stolen glances, feeble touches, shy words, All a non-standing declaration or not. He
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The danger of fractured morals, To be on the edge of right and wrong, Backs turned on “righteous” upbringing, Hearts craving the safety of mama’s words, Who to obey? How easy it must be to let go and let in, Or the difficulty of a heavy conscience, The skin is mine to flaunt, Open for
I stand staring, Mirror Mirror on the wall, Who is the fairest of them all? With smiles of laughter, Voice of mockery, It says, “all but you”. How can I blame you? Crusty and embedded in the fragrance of smoke, How can I be the fairest of them all? My skin cracked open by the
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