BEST OF FRIENDSHIP

Someone asked me if I had friends. She said 'Who is your best friend? Don't you have friends? Who do you talk to? Who would be your bridesmaid?' And she ended it with 'you're such a loner' I just smiled and said 'well they are there' thinking to myself that at this point in my life, friends are at the bottom of my list of priorities! With what life has dealt me with over the past few years, I've realized life isn't all about posting different faces on Instagram and calling x and y my 'b****' it's not about making snap chat videos with x today and y the next! I have my friends. My die hard people! We might not talk everyday, they might not know what I bought yesterday, what argument bae and I had, who said what about who but they have my back and I have theirs. I can run to them crying and I know there's a shoulder waiting for me to lean on and an ear eager to listen. Just because we don't have group chats/ constant chats doesn't mean we don't keep up with each other's lives. It means we have priorities. Bagging them degrees ya know with 4.0s not just passes. Becoming successful is my priority. Not taking selfies and gossiping about whose nudes leaked. When I and my best friends get to the top, then we'll make noise in our Walter Steigers standing in the limelight of world stages or behind the scenes creating a movement, making a change to the world and leaving an imprint of our greatness as we impact so many lives- all that as a result of the tight circles that didn't gossip or backbite, that stood by each other through the best and worst, supported one another and respected personal space. At that point we might drop a selfie or two with the hashtag throwback and then you'll realize that true friendship isn't about the noise and meet ups. It's about everything else! To those friends that are forever true, remain unknown until the billions set in! The best and most beautiful of gems are hidden from the harsh elements of the world💎

BLACK GIRL

Oi beautiful black girl

Shine in your ebony skin 

Wear your crown like it was made of gold 

Swerve your hips to a rhyme unheard 

Let those waist beads clink and clank 

Oi beautiful black girl 

Embrace your beauty like a pearl in its shell 

Oi black girl 

You are beautiful inside and out 

Do not let society bring you down

Oi beautiful black girl 

You will crawl, walk, run then fly 

You will soar like a great eagle 

Your wings spread across the bright blue sky 

Oi beautiful black girl 

Strut the earth with your head held up high 

Let the ground be your catwalk

Oi beautiful black girl 

Laugh and cry like the sounds of the talking drum 

Run and dance without care for the world 

Be proud of who you are 

Where you are 

And what you are

Rise above the constraints of society 

Oi black girl 

You have everything by you 

You are strong and beautiful 

Let no one tell you otherwise 

Oi beautiful black girl 

You will be great 

Born a princess 

Die a Queen 

Oi beautiful black girl 

BROKEN SHIELDS

I need someone to talk to

Not you, someone less attached 

I don't know what I want to talk about 

But I know I'm not well 

Happy? Far from it 

I can't feel 

Just hate and anger 

Irritation and annoyance

I need you 

Not you 

Someone else 

I want joy 

Laughter and fun 

I need privacy

Independence and a tit bit of confidence

I have forgotten how to love

Share in the art of patience 

Nothing nothing nothing

Feels like my insides have been bleached 

I need you 

SANCTIONED IGNORANCE

 What irks you? For me it's the very little things.The loud lady talking to her mum on the phone in the train.The guy who slurps on his coffee at Starbucks.The couple who live upstairs and seem to have a life obligation of bickering at 3 am on a Sunday night.That one 'supposed' friend or family member that always finds a way to point out ones imperfections.There are so many things!The list goes on and on.But what throws my lid off the most is that one personality which happens to be half a billion people around the world that do not care. That one person that breathes without living. Passionless, ungrateful, proud, arrogant, confused and uncaring... It isn't too difficult to find a purpose to live. Just do it! LOL the irony. How many lawsuits have Nike gotten themselves in for not caring about the environment? Working conditions? Sweat shops? That's my point! We do not care who or what gets hurt all we want are glow in the dark yoga pants and the newest Roshes!

DISAPPOINTMENTS

    We happen to live in a world where love is confused for physical attraction. Where peace is gotten through wars. Where modesty is confused for not being cool. Where being religious Is translated into extremism; (I do not believe in such a word when it is linked to religion. One either believes and has faith in the existence of a superior being that is simply greater than the human understanding or strays from the path). Where being polite and nice passes for being cheap and attention seeking. I have missed the days where the neighbours were family; where chatting up someone was delightful. I have missed the days when a smile meant a whole lot.