"yararewa" poems
The Challenge
(Day 18)
What is it you stand to gain?
Playing with hearts like cards, is this a game?
This isn’t poker, this isn’t snooker, why you playing with these hearts as if you’re playing soccer?
This pain my heart can no longer nest
Can’t believe I was a pawn in this game of chess
How did I get caught up in this mess
Believing you were pure good nothing else
Alas you are evil with the “d” I would belittle your cruelty if I called you anything less
Who takes a breastfeeding child from its mother only to dump it in a slum with no one to cater to?
Who cuts open a stitched laceration only to watch it rot so a limb gets amputated.
When did love become so merciless and unkind?
When has God ever played games with His likeness, their minds?
Why say I do before a crowd of witnesses only to act like you don’t behind closed doors?
Why promise forever when life with you makes a visit from death better?
Why pretend you’re gentle a dove, when you’re a vulture, all claws?
Why wear a robe of integrity when the skin underneath is only known for breaking the law?
What’s the prize?
Why do all these hearts have to pay the price?
Are you ever going to end this cycle
Is this going to be an endless vicious circle?
r3d
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Nov 11, 2017
Nov 11, 2017 at 4:51 PM UTC
I've failed you once again
I really am that wild one that can't be tamed
It's not you this time, I'm to blame
The picture of my dreams are too humongous to fit your frame
Your excuses have long become lame
I've found a shelter, a hedge from your cruel reign
There will be a draught from your abuses that never cease to rain
Your insanity got me wondering if I ever was sane
You and I cease to be, nothing will ever be the same
This time I choose me, I have trained hard enough to beat you at your drain-game
I am the grand prize, I, will I claim
Never again with your toxic love will I remain
I'd aim to fail you again
This time with showers of love I'd pour on myself to burn out your toxic flames
I"d fail you once and for all, rather than fail myself
Never again!
What's there to lose when all i stand to do is gain?
I've picked me off of your shelf
This time I'm doing me, stop looking for flaws in everyone else
Find you again, do it for yourself
r3d
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Nov 8, 2017
Nov 8, 2017 at 12:54 PM UTC
The Challenge
(Day 17)
The villain was once a victim
The abuser once was the abused
The bully once was bullied
The hunter was once a prey
These are the ones who neither possessed the will power nor the required support to fight the negative effects of their experiences
These are the ones whose voices were drowned by the screams of stigma
These are the souls left to sail away in the rivers of anger and hate.
Who is to blame?
Society?
Environment?
Religion?
Tradition?
Ignorance?
How do we break this cycle?
How do we end this vicious circle?
The villian, the victim must all be helped.
No one should be left out, all deserve to be helped.
r3d
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Nov 10, 2017
Nov 10, 2017 at 9:56 AM UTC
The Challenge
(Day 19)
“RITJIMWA:
Something good/beautiful, joy has come to them!“
Something eccentric, something whose drama might be considered Oscar worthy, something unbelievably beautiful, something awesome, something amazing... for everyone reading this, you've got to be atleast one of this to someone, you've got to mean more than all these words to a couple of people.to say the least.
So next time someone tries to be condescending or silly, look them square in the face, and then smile and walk away with your head high knowing you're beautiful!
And you owe no one an explanation cause your smile has done enough already.
Remember, sometimes you'd forget but try to remember as often as you can that no one else in the world can offer the uniqueness you've got!
#yararewa
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Nov 12, 2017
Nov 12, 2017 at 11:32 AM UTC
The Challenge
(Day 16)
I'm hungry! Famished! Starving and I don't wanna be satisfied.
I wanna always hunger for more
Yearn for more
Strive for more
Be more
Love some more
Forgive some more
Learn some more.
I hunger for more confidence
For prudence
For divine guidance
To lean on you alone.
I hunger to keep running after you
To bring to life that vision you gave to me
To inspire another
To try again
To breath again
To be great
And to in turn inspire another
I hunger to stand tall
To rise to higher heights after every fall
To look beyond the prison of my mind and to break down its walls
Walls of fear
Of pride, of anger, of hate
And to never get sated till this hunger becomes the death of me..
r3d
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#firesofr3d
Nov 9, 2017
Nov 9, 2017 at 9:08 AM UTC
The Challenge
(Day 20)
Reject me
Despise me
Ridicule me
Dear foe
Compound my woes
I'm in the throes of a reckless abandon
Be merciless, be brutal, this slavery leads to freedom
Cast the first stone, lay the foundation
Let me feel the burning hate in your eyes melt the ice in my soul and start a fire inside
Tell me I won't amount to nothing, tell me I can never be easy on any eye
Say all the nasty things don't mince words, be precise
Hurt me, throw me out
I'd thrive on your rejection, let me strive alone
I need your rejection to be the cornerstone
r3d
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Nov 13, 2017
Nov 13, 2017 at 10:06 AM UTC
The Challenge
(Day 12)
When you pour the liquid content of a 35cl soda into a 50cl bottle it will never fill it up
If you pour it into a 15cl bottle it will fill it up and overflow.
Same thing with when you pour your love, energies, vibes or share your space, sanctuary and essence with the wrong people.
You’d either end up being too much or never enough.
If this is the case with you please find a way to detach yourself from this person before the damage becomes irreparable.
No matter how much you give someone who doesn’t value you or holds you in contempt it will never be enough.
Save yourself before you start to second guess your worth and shatter your esteem.
The only way to help a toxic person is not to shield such a person but be firm and ensure the person seeks the help ***** needs.
This is a show of love.
Love will always want you to be the best and have the best you can get and not let you plunge into troubled waters while it watches you drown without lending a helping hand.
We cannot give what we don’t have which is why we must always check ourselves and be accountable for and to ourselves before daring to do same for others.
May the week ahead bring us all peace and fulfilment.
Salaam!
r3d
12:35
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#firesofr3d
Nov 5, 2017
Nov 5, 2017 at 7:03 AM UTC
The Challenge
(Day 14)
Come on in
Or get the hell out!
Don't stand in the doorway like a ****** footmat
Say you will
Or say you won't Keep your "I just mights" to your self so we don't end up having a fight
Say good morning,good afternoon or goodnight
Say the truth, oh please say it right
Don't lie beneath canopies of lies saying its diplomacy
Your indecision is a decision in itself
It's amusing you don't even know what you're about
Please get out and don't forget to shut the door on your way out!!
r3d
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#firesofr3d
Nov 7, 2017
Nov 7, 2017 at 10:40 AM UTC
You left before we could even begin,
A lig ht that shone bright but burnt out too fast leaving me behind in the dark
Ending the thought of a beginning,
Losing a war I thought I was winning.
a beginning whose end was no where in sight
With the words goodbye
I knew we had lost our last chance to try
Try to start
Before we part
You left and you left behind meaning
Meaning than hurts while it's healing
Healing old wounds and piercing through the vessel that blood pumps with a sniper's accuracy making its kills fast and painless
It must have been the way my being your eyes caressed
As your lips took mine in a communion of the unworthy but blessid
Watching you walk away
With the words our eyes held but our lips would dare not say
I knew you weren't going stray
Cause soon again, in your arms my head will find a place till my hairs turn gray..
r3d
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#museyilnen
#yararewa
#northernstar
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#writingright
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Nov 4, 2017
Nov 4, 2017 at 1:02 PM UTC