Dorothy

Dorothy Jun 2014

06/26/14

I wonder what you ever saw in me.
I wonder if you still feel what you felt when you thought you almost loved me, because I think back on the days when you loved me.
I wonder if those thoughts will ever go away. Kind of like the way your love did. I hate how your love is now past tensed. And I can't get past this. I reminisce on the time we kissed on the top deck of my apartment complex. Sweat dripping down our faces on a hot July summer day but it didn't matter baby I wouldn't mind reliving it. Someone told me that true love didn't exist, that you'd be stupid if you ever believed in it, but I do. My shattered heart is broken proof. And even though your cold feet got the best of you I know our love was true. I still hold on to us like we'll go back to what we used to be. Like you'll start to believe in our potential, see even though you said you never loved me..I did.
It's pathetic and sad but I'm not ashamed to admit it. The past is the past although deep down inside I feel like you actually did. But that could just be my positive side seeping through my sheet of pessimistic. I'll make sure to love you at a distance. Because even after all of this I'm not done trying.
I'm not done trying. You won't forget this.

#love

Dorothy Jun 2014

Average Joe.

Some people think I'm so deep
A dark and mysterious being
Just living amongst the blithesome ones

"Oh look at Dorothy
She's zoned out again
Wonder what she's over there thinking"

Contemplating on life's blow your mind out questions
Like Why don't you ever see baby pigeons?
Or Why do they sterilize needles for lethal injections?
And If someone with multiple personalities threatens to **** herself, is it considered a hostage situation?

Those are my life's crazy questions
Even Google's search bar has more imagination
I'm far from puzzling, tangible to say the least
You don't have to read into much to get to know me

My mind is not a challenging maze
I lack any form of craftsmanship
And I've come to realize that because of this
I turn out to be just another friendship or romance phase

It's okay

This is what you get
I am Ms. Ordinary Joe
It's your choice to accept it
Because regardless of my bland taste
I wont force myself to ever change

*shrugg

#random

Dorothy Jun 2014

(10w)

But you're not
supposed to
prejudge me
you're a
poet!

#personal

Dorothy Jun 2014

Untitled

I want you but then I don't
I Love you but then I.......

Wont lie

I'll never stop loving you
Not even when I "stop" loving you

A garboil frenzy stirred up in me
From our first encounter
You shot my guarded with ten feet brick walls heart down
Exposed me to something new
The more nights I spent on the phone with you
The more my feelings grew

Don't let me physically see you
That's a different story all on its own!
One deserving its own poem.
Hey, I'm just being honest
We're all grown!

But anyway
You've got me swaying to your beat with your harmonious words and graceful flow
Dazed and paralyzed from my curly haired head to my pedicured toes
With this infatuation for you

Wait nah, even though this is new
I know it's more then pash puppy love
This is real

We are real

No matter how many times I push away
My feelings will never budge, or stray.

We're not together yet and that's fine
Cause you don't know it yet
But you're already mine.

My days are focused with serving Jehovah with my whole heart and ability
The end of this system is coming fast
So i make sure to walk in the right path
Continuing to always please him in his eyes

But Jehovah knows my other inner desires
He knows how I want to share my days with a lifelong partner

Title me passion *****
Love burns my fire
We were built with abounding emotions
A longing to share our tender affections with another person
And I'm no different, almost ready for that serious commitment
To share my world with an outstanding christian witness

You fit that description..
So with his blessings my dream will come true
And with his blessings that person will
One day be you

Dorothy May 2014

It starts within

There's nothing in this world that can hold you back from your own life's progression. Remember that

Trials of today is part of our growth that will later help us reach our ultimate destination.
Not everything will come to you with ease

Endurance along with persistence
The two things we'll mostly need
It is a prime key factor in achieving goals set

The one who is brave, not phased by fear is the one that will vanquish
the tallest concrete wall
making what was once foggy and difficult, clear.

You're worth more then what you think
God put you on this earth, he gave you the gift of life
And unlike us
He never makes mistakes

A beloved and deeply cherished poet recited:

"When we come to it
We must confess that we are the possible
We are the miraculous, the true wonder of this world
That is when, and only when
We come to it."

-Maya Angelou

Words that will forever be a positive reinforcement on what we
On what
YOU
could truly be.

#self #strength #worth #positivity #rip #maya #angelou

May 2014

Raphael Uzor

Generation Skipped

“You are the leaders of tomorrow”
They told us over and over
Right from the tender age of three
Through childhood and adolescence.
We have outgrown our youth
We are now mature men
We have come of age to lead
Just as promised decades ago.

At a recent gathering
Our *leaders of yesterday
Stricken with age and power
And long overdue for retirement
Addressed us, saying,
“Bla bla bla, bla bla, bla bla bla…”
“You are the leaders of tomorrow”*
That last statement jolted me awake
From his uninspiring, boring speech.

Then it dawned on me
We are a sleeping generation
We have long been waiting- sleeping!
When we should be leading
Our greedy, power-drunk leaders,
Will die in active service!
They will NOT hand over to us!
Not if we sit and wait for them.

I had a *revelation that the “tomorrow”,
We were promised “yesterday”
Is fast becoming yesterday, today!
And while the Nigerian youth sleeps
His chance is being usurped by his fathers
Yesterday we heard this promise
Today we hear the same promise
But come tomorrow, we will be too old to lead
And our children’s turn, it will be.

We have been scammed of our future
By the very ones we entrusted them with
And like turns in a game of scrabble,
We have missed ours- forever!
Our leaders are old men
Who have no faith in youths
And come tomorrow, our children,
Will have graves to look up to

Because we would have no experience
From which to advise them…
And like an unwanted track on a CD
Our generation would have been skipped
By the geriatric push of a ⇒ button!

© Raphael Uzor

A practical instance of "tomorrow never dies"

#future #youth #generation #nigeria #leaders

Dorothy May 2014

The Movement

Black power!

I stopped hiding from my roots, I do not let my natural tightly coiled strands become chemically manipulated into bone straightness. I'm no longer hiding from my roots.
My natural hair will represent this

I went on an interview today for a position as a dental assistant, checked out the office on the website right after and then
oh no
The staff is all white, what if I don't get hired because of...

Black Power!

I stopped hiding from my roots; the sun is not my enemy. I no longer veil from its rays because the fear of getting "blacker." Look at that skin; love its rich deep melanin. Follow my movement; I'm no longer hiding from my roots.
My black skin will prove this

The other night I went out with a couple of new friends,
to be more precise they were homemade Alantians.
Born and raised in Atlanta!
It was a nice warm night, and at the end of it they wanted to take some pics to post up on their instagrams. But guys wait; let’s get into the light, I don’t want to appear all dark next to you light brights. You are all mixed which makes you effortlessly good lookin'
snap
Ugh I hate it I'm to black, don’t post that.

I stopped hiding from my roots, I rock my tightly coiled natural strands.
I'm not ashamed of who I am, Look at my skin and its deep rich melanin
Walking with my fist raised up in the air to represent what I on a daily contradict.

Black Power!

Forgive me, I'm new to this. When I was growing up the things that embodied our black nation was never accepted.

Black power! I'm ready to follow this radical movement.

By no means am I in favor of one race over another. I consider myself more of a humanitarian if anything at all. My concern is geared towards ALL people. But when I was younger it wasn't that way. It was difficult to be okay with who I am. With my race in general, I wanted to be someone else, with different hair, skin complexion, body frame. Thankfully I've outgrown such thinking but completely removing something that has been embossed in your brain for years takes a little bit of time.

#race