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And looked in contempt, resentment and fear for my future For the belief that it may limit me Was instilled in me by the world To think that my potential for greatness would be overshadowed by it coming from a black woman I am better than those who would use me as a comparison to those who are lesser and paler I shall not be labeled and confined to the means of black history I am history Sure I am black, Sure I am a woman, But above all, I am somebody you will remember for my life and it’s magnitude. As a scholar, a friend, and as a writer I will not be remembered a black woman but as me
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Feb 14
Feb 14, 2026 at 11:52 PM UTC
Ive dawned upon my skin
The devil is beautiful That's the point No one wants to be ugly Beautiful does not equate inherent goodness Lucifer was god's favorite so beautiful so perfect Vain He fell The devil is. So beautiful. you can't help but follow him Track him with your eyes Fall into his gaze Actions be ****** because God is hard God is divine, a being you can't look at for fear you'll never look back away God is the type of divinity that strikes feat in nations The devil is easy Comfortable Conventional Convenient Do I really want to be beautiful?
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Apr 25, 2025
Apr 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM UTC
Beautiful
I've only recently been able to admit to the idea that I am depressed No A person with depression I know I have things I have a history I think in my head an attempt isn't depression Just a bad decision Symptoms of depression include • Irritability • Difficulty concentrating • Lack of energy • insomnia or excessive sleeping Obviously I don't have those I'm not irritable I'm probably just hungry I haven't been able to concentrate my whole life. Why start now I'm a teenager of course i'm tired It's not sleeping excessively I just like naps Its that **** phone If your room weren't such a mess Get out more Socialize There's light at the end of the- Shut up Two years ago I tried to end my life Downed a bottle of pain meds and a canister of albuteral All to wake up with just a sore throat It didn't work so here I am again Against my own worse judgements Too tired to try again so I'm just gonna go to sleep So now I'm going to sleep tomorrow I will remember how to be happy. And then by 2pm I'll forget again Completing the circle
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Mar 30, 2025
Mar 30, 2025 at 12:56 AM UTC
I don't have depression
I don't think the world would comprehend what I mean when I say I have intuitive thoughts. When I say I think about grabbing a knife from the cupboard and I'm not gonna finish that one The thoughts bleed from my head. I look like carrie Obscene words cover me from top to bottom Next time you get in the shower you should water board yourself Put a fork in the microwave and watch it explode in your face Get ready in the morning with a nice ice bath for your face, just use boiling water Clip your nails, clean off. Keep cutting. You should shave until there's nothing left Bleed Cut Bleed But those intrinsive thoughts aren't silly and funny So i'm gonna stick to You should eat that whole jar of nutella
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Mar 30, 2025
Mar 30, 2025 at 12:15 AM UTC
Intrusive
I've never been in love but I can imagine it Matching fits, talking bout cats n **** Be my man ill be your ***** Ride or die When I'm with you we'll fly Superman, cheer for you in the stands Here for you till the end My man will be perfect Absolutely no flaws he'll have it all Speed dial no need to call Cause my man will have it all Cause my man My man I haven't met you yet and I know you'll be perfect Because in the ocean of my dreams I see you surfing I'm learning That everything i do is leading up to you And everything you do and see is for the moment you meet me Don't that just make you cheese The duo we'll be whole world to see My man and me
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Mar 28, 2025
Mar 28, 2025 at 1:41 AM UTC
Not yet
When words fail what's left? Song? My praises singing Hands? I gesture, paint worlds with my movements When words fail do we write? Put my pen to paper and let the words spread like watercolor Words speech, are all I know Silence is a foreign language to me When words fail I have little left. So I pray my words do not fail. Because words are mine.
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Mar 28, 2025
Mar 28, 2025 at 1:38 AM UTC
When words fail
Just because you didn't like what i said doesn't make it inherently mean I will always be the angry Black girl Unfortunately I am angry I am perpetually Black And a woman beyond my control But is it wrong to be angry At a world that doesn't want me A world that hides me Tells me I got that bad hair Im not good enough for TV Fix your Hair Fix your Nose Fix your Additude Grown folks business I am a woman built to mother children My womb built to harbor Pray to God they aren't a girl Pray to God they aren't Black I dont have to be angry Sit back Let someone else be angry Let someone else be the Black girl in the room But my blood won't let me My veins will jump up and run away My body's inclined My soul won't sit Sit for ******** So I'm forcing myself to bd the angry Black girl
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Mar 9, 2025
Mar 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM UTC
Angry Black and a girl
I wake in the middle of the night and there's not enough air to fill my lungs I can see the calm but it's too far away There's enough noise in my head to wake the neighborhood Scream into my pillow, I'm sure it's traumatized by now Put my headphones on and force myself to sleep I wake in the middle of the morning it's like it never happened There's air in the room My music is louder than the noise Being sad is only for the dark of my room My personality isn't fit for depression I'm not that girl I have too many hobbies to be so sad so I just decided to stop Tears are for pillows Crying is for your bed Because you're too happy to be sad It's. Not. You.
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Mar 6, 2025
Mar 6, 2025 at 5:40 PM UTC
The Dark
Ask not what your country can do for you, ask yourself: Do you feel lucky, punk? Huh, do yuh? I have a dream that one day, on the red hills of Georgia, little black boys and black girls will join hands with little white boys and white girls and...What we have here is failure to communicate.. ...black lives matter ...like a thief in the night ... We shall fight them on the beaches, we shall fight them on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender... Four score and seven years ago our forefathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that... ...you can't handle the truth  ! ... The only thing we have to fear... is one small step for man, one giant leap for... weapons of mass destruction. We hold these truths to be self-evident, all men are created... to...  say it. I said, 'I’ve been sayin’ that **** for years.' They deserved to die, and I hope they burn in hell. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Then He said... I’ll be back. Thou shalt not... tear down this wall. We do these things not because they are easy but because... your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my ... eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind." frankly, my dear, I don’t give a **** One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for... an offer they can't refuse. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall (and ) say hello to my little friend. We the people, in order to form a more perfect union... the streets shall flow with the blood of the non-believers. That is weird, wild stuff, I did not know that... I think, therefore... I see dead people... Houston, we have... (to) throw the baby out with the bath water.. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of... A house divided against itself... With great power comes... the angel of the Lord, and lo, He said unto them... Give me liberty, or give me... Government of the people, by the people, for the people... To be or not to be... You talking to me? You talkin' to me? Am I funny to you? Am I a clown to you, do I amuse you... Don’t count your chickens before they hatch... I, am your father... It was the best of times, it was the worst of times... come and play, everything's  A okay, we're on our way to where the air is... A day that shall live in infamy... "Why so serious?" I know you are, but what am I? In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth... but in the end, nobody puts Baby in a corner... **** the torpedoes, full speed ahead! Give me liberty, or give me... more cowbell ! Thou shalt not... live long and prosper! Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere... there's no place like home. I’ll have what she’s having. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely... I am the way, the truth, and the life. If you want something done right... speak softly and carry a big stick..
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Mar 3, 2025
Mar 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM UTC
the most important things ever written, Don't quote me on that!
Ask not what your country can do for you, ask yourself: Do you feel lucky, punk? Huh, do yuh? I have a dream that one day, on the red hills of Georgia, little black boys and black girls will join hands with little white boys and white girls and...What we have here is failure to communicate.. ...black lives matter ...like a thief in the night ... We shall fight them on the beaches, we shall fight them on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender... Four score and seven years ago our forefathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that... ...you can't handle the truth  ! ... The only thing we have to fear... is one small step for man, one giant leap for... weapons of mass destruction. We hold these truths to be self-evident, all men are created... to...  say it. I said, 'I’ve been sayin’ that **** for years.' They deserved to die, and I hope they burn in hell. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Then He said... I’ll be back. Thou shalt not... tear down this wall. We do these things not because they are easy but because... your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my ... eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind." frankly, my dear, I don’t give a **** One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for... an offer they can't refuse. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall (and ) say hello to my little friend. We the people, in order to form a more perfect union... the streets shall flow with the blood of the non-believers. That is weird, wild stuff, I did not know that... I think, therefore... I see dead people... Houston, we have... (to) throw the baby out with the bath water.. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of... A house divided against itself... With great power comes... the angel of the Lord, and lo, He said unto them... Give me liberty, or give me... Government of the people, by the people, for the people... To be or not to be... You talking to me? You talkin' to me? Am I funny to you? Am I a clown to you, do I amuse you... Don’t count your chickens before they hatch... I, am your father... It was the best of times, it was the worst of times... come and play, everything's  A okay, we're on our way to where the air is... A day that shall live in infamy... "Why so serious?" I know you are, but what am I? In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth... but in the end, nobody puts Baby in a corner... **** the torpedoes, full speed ahead! Give me liberty, or give me... more cowbell ! Thou shalt not... live long and prosper! Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere... there's no place like home. I’ll have what she’s having. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely... I am the way, the truth, and the life. If you want something done right... speak softly and carry a big stick..
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I don't wanna be around people I have to explain it too I wanna be around people who relate Who get it The struggle I want to be around people who know what it's like to get their hair braided Who knows what it's like when People touch your hair Who know what it's like to weigh out whether or not you should fight back Who know what it's like to have to change your vocabulary for someone Who know what it's like to be the mean girl Because it is a big deal. You don't see it because it's not you You don't see it because it doesn't matter to you You dont see it because you aren't me You don't know what it's like to get your hair braided You don't know how it feels when people toch your hair You don't know what it's like For me it's not just touching my hair It's treating me like I'm some exotic thing It's making me the me the bad guy for calling you out, because your feelings got hurt It's making sure not to use slang so I'm not "that kind of black girl" It's being mean for speaking out It's being around people who you have to explain this to.
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Feb 18, 2025
Feb 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM UTC
Explained
SH stands for so happy I carve it into my skin because I am so happy I used to be so happy All the time So happy in the morning So happy at night So happy with a toilet paper roll over the sink I loved to be so happy I'm not so happy anymore So Unhappy? So Ber. So this is me now Not so happy But I am happy Just Happy And JH doesn't stand for anything
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Feb 18, 2025
Feb 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM UTC
Just Happy
I think "not winning" has allowed a jealousy to consume me Im so proud of my captain and excited for her captaincy.. But god ******* **** it do i want it Want to rip the crown from her hand Listen to the voice The old decrepit witch that wants the beauty God. Save me Save me from this vice Provide me salvation from the evil that lives in my thoughts Serve me with grace Let me lead with poise Because it was not all for nothing I am still me Still a C.
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Dec 24, 2024
Dec 24, 2024 at 3:13 PM UTC
Wear the C
Can't let gang know i **** with this Can't let them know Low-key Actually Unironically F. W. Although Gang Doesn't **** At least Not with me God **** it.
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Dec 24, 2024
Dec 24, 2024 at 2:57 PM UTC
**** with
carved into my brain enduring the pain etched into my heart don't know where to start thoughts forming in the dark each trail leaving a mark it influences every step so many of which I regret why was I never taught that I too was someone to be loved? my body worthy even with skin so earthy we do not realise what is instilled in us something long needed to discuss all we do is accept it as truth never once questioned in our youth now we blindly follow these falsehoods but it takes a while to be fully understood that those images burned in my mind were from the beginning never kind for I have been othered, fed a lie am I but fodder? it made me cry and now I simply fail to see any beauty left inside of me
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Nov 25, 2024
Nov 25, 2024 at 3:39 PM UTC
Cursed Skin
Last year I wanted to **** myself This year I don't want too I just want to hurt myself. Slit my wrists and watch the blood rip down my hands Feel the sizle of wrapping my wounds Daddy asked me the other day what I filter when we're talking He says I don't filter what comes out of my brain He says he knows me better than I know myself He says that this is what he went to school for. If he knows me so well, why did I go so long feeling that way If he knows me so well, why did I feel like I could **** myself Why did I try to **** myself and he didn't even know Why when I told him that I was slitting my wrists he laughed in my face Why didn't he notice anything at all He says i'm a bad liar, but I have lied my way through every conversation we've had the genuine true real me. The feelings that I feel on a daily basis   He will never know, because the facade, the mask that I put on every morning is so realistic you would think that's my face. The only thing keeping me from leaving this earthly plane is not the fear of death, but what my death would do to him, my mother. My brothers I haven't tried to hurt myself in 3 months Summertime is keeping me clean How I will survive the winter I do not know the long sleeves of fall Give me every reason to fall back into the hole I was in not too long ago But the guilt The shame The lies That's what holds me back
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Aug 25, 2024
Aug 25, 2024 at 11:20 AM UTC
Last year
When male penguins like a female penguin they scower the entire beach looking for the perfect pebble and present it to her like a proposal. I want a rock A pebble So small but big enough to fill the entirety of my heart. My heart. I'm told that one person cannot be your missing peice I'm not sure if i'm in love with the pebble, but maybe the idea of someone giving it to me. I'm not in love with the Penguin, but the idea of what he represents. Someone to walk with me through thick and thin and breathe my air. Someone to sit next to me during a scary movie. Someone to hold my hand under the table and giggle about a joke that no one understands but us Someone to give me a pebble But pebbles don't fill that void that hole Pebbles can only do so much I can collect pebbles like Pokémon cards, but I will never fill that hole Because a pebble can't be all of you No person No rock Nothing but god alone can fill the void that lingers in my soul But yet I continue to dig and dig and dig and dig for the pebble that's perfect for me But a pebble isn't what I need
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Aug 25, 2024
Aug 25, 2024 at 11:22 AM UTC
Penguins
I write this a requiem for me An act of remembrance for the girl I used to be A view out of the rose colored glasses of which I used to see Oh little baby me You have a gift, no one can see You breathe in air, no one else breathes You have a halo that rises above me The beam of happiness that bounces off your smile goes on for a mile. Not to mention your style Your existence makes life worthwhile You are the lily of the nile You are only perfection in my eyes You baby girl are all that is good in this world You are a shining pearl Your goodness may have faded on me. But for all I can see you are as perfect as can be. You, you are no longer me You are better than I will ever be So here I write a requiem I write this for me Not the me that I am, but the me i used to be The one that sees more than I see. I write this for me.
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Aug 25, 2024
Aug 25, 2024 at 11:25 AM UTC
Requiem for me
I have always run a mile a minute. My words moving faster than I could ever run. Thought through or not words flow out of my mouth like water I haven't been able to shut up for the last 15 years. The grass, the caterpillars, tired of my talking. The grasses are screaming. The cats, the lizards, crawling away swiftly. The caterpillars turned to butterflies in order to fly away from me. And here's silence. I've never heard silence not even in the depths of my mind. I've always wondered what it's like but It's a sword in a stone that I will never be able to touch. I have always run a mile a minute. My words are like a fire with every sentence oil is doused upon the flame. I crave the extinguish of silence And yet in the dark of mind when all of the crows have flown away Silence is just an idea not yet formed
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Sep 24, 2024
Sep 24, 2024 at 9:01 AM UTC
Mile a minute
I think perhaps that I am too sensitive The snowflake The idea that my generation is soft and can't handle conflict might be true, because because in my eyes, all conflict is evil, maybe I am stirring up conflict, maybe I am the one whole holding the lighter and lighter fluid at the bridges that I burn. Maybe I'm too sensitive. A snowflake in a pool of lava, I am just begging to burn in flames. Perhaps I just am unable to live a life without conflict. Maybe I'm just messy. Maybe I'm too sensitive offended by everyones words hurt by every pin Maybe I'm too sensitive
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Oct 16, 2024
Oct 16, 2024 at 11:20 AM UTC
Am I?
You made me a poet You made my pencil and paper meet My words hit paper All I am is a product of what you have made me to be You made me a poet
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Oct 16, 2024
Oct 16, 2024 at 11:21 AM UTC
You made me
I am trying to find solace in silence Comfort in quiet Safety in my slumber As seasons of friendship end I struggle with the idea silence Notifications on but my phone doesn't buzz Work, school, work, school, study, practice study. No need for texts if you don't have time Breathe Sit and breathe Breathe and sit I have never quite sat in silence Always has there been noise The noise in my head The noise of my life For one of the first times in my life in sit comfortably in silence
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Oct 16, 2024
Oct 16, 2024 at 11:22 AM UTC
Quiet
Everytime I look in the mirror I smile Not because I think im pretty But because i don't want the mirror girl to be sad Because to me she is separate I don't want that girl to see me cry Everytime I look in the mirror I smile Not because I'm happy but because she's pretty Even if I am ugly Inside out and all over That girl will always be pretty Everytime I look in the mirror I smile Because that girl is me She deserves to be pretty She deserves to be happy Inside out And all over
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Oct 27, 2024
Oct 27, 2024 at 4:13 PM UTC
Smiles