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Word sauce and meaty nuance
Poem burrito
Hungry for delicious expression
 Apr 2015 Leahsa Blake
Nevermind
I missed you yesterday
I missed you today
And tomorrow's gonna be the same old way
 Apr 2015 Leahsa Blake
Doy A
I am defenseless.
I am weak.
I am vulnerable.
I am sensitive.
I am thoughtful.
I am smart.
I am independent.
I am dependent.
I am headstrong.
I am naïve.
I am enough.
I am more than enough.
I am selfish.
I am proud.
I am giving.

I am a blank paper crumpled
and thrown away
and you picked me up
and said,
"You're beautiful.
I will never hurt you."


You are stubborn.
You are lazy.
You are strong.
You are smart.
You are crazy.
You are vibrant.
You are an adventure.
You are enough.
You are more than enough.
You are selfless.
You are humble.
You are simple.

*You are the crash after the high
I never thought you'd ever
Hurt me.
-                                       It's simple, Life Isn't fair. You grow
                                        Believing
              ­                          It Is
                                        Until the world Releases
                                         It's
                                         Wrath.
                                         Equality
                                         Doesn't
                                           Come                                                     
                ­                           Easily

                                               It most definitely won't
                                                            come­
                                                           without
                                                         ­  a Fight.
                                                          ­ Every
                                                            Figh­t
                                                          Comes
­                                                           With
                                         a consequence. It may seem hard
                                                    
                                                             However                
                                         ­             It's worth It
                                               Barack Obama
                                         Ridiculed                              
                                    So I can
                                   become a
                                     president  
                                         Rosa Parks          Imprisoned
                                       ­        So I can                    sit  
                                    ­               wherever               I                      
                                         ­                       choose

                                  ­       Martin              Luther
                                      ­    King              Assassinated
                                        So I can          befriend
                                        anyone I          choose
                                         Malcolm   X   Murdered          
                                         So I can    be   accepted
                                      Freedom           ­  Riders
                                      Arrested So        I can eat
                                       wherever           I choose
                                          Black             Panthers        
                                         Abused            So I can be      
                                          treated       ­         fairly


                                These fighters died, On the front line, On the battle field
                                                         So I wouldn't have
                                                      To. And yet, Where am I
                                                      Fighting,­ On the front line
                                                            Of the battle field
                                                           So what ever young  
                                                      asp­iring African American
                                                           won't be deprived
                                                            of their education
                                                       ­       Of their History
                                                          Of their right to vote;
                                                           ­  For standing up
                                                         For what they believe In
                                                                ­ It's simple
                                                          ­      Life Isn't fair
                                                               However you
                                                                ­ don't know
                                                                ­  Until life
                                                                ­ unleashes It's
                                                            ­         wrath
                                                           ­        On You
No matter what you believe In, No matter how hard It may seem, If It requires a fight, Fight It.
 Apr 2015 Leahsa Blake
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 Apr 2015 Leahsa Blake
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Please don't take
this feeling
I have found at last
This Feeling // Alabama Shakes
Tag
No thunder
no lightning
no pen and no writing,
nothing to do except
sit here waiting for you
and I do.

At one of the clock
I hear the key in the lock
and I turn on the light
to welcome her,
standing there,
by the door,
there's more but
the light goes off
and I can't see,
the key in the door
becomes me,
and I do.
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