LadyAIM

"Bricks"

I slept, but my heart was awake, A thousand times over, I tell myself, I will not think about you, But then I do. You have molded into my life Like a brick in my foundation, a dark cherry red one. And no matter what I do, everyday there you are. Notice, that you are among other bricks. Bricks, from the last year, Bricks, from last week, Even some deep burgundy ones, with ashy passion marks from years ago. I often sit alone and look around at what life I have built for myself, And I realize that if I were to remove a single piece, a single brick, The walls of my very world would collapse. That is the reason; I would not change a thing, Each and every brick, has a place. No matter how unpleasant, It is mine. And I will claim it. Do not run from the things that have made you. When asked do not deny them, Stand Boldly and be who you are, Because that, is the only thing that will save you. -AIM

The only limits that we have are the ones we put on ourselves.

"I AM WOMAN" I am aware of the circumstance, Born woman, not by chance, A daughter, a sister, a mother, A mans queen and lover, I am woman. Calm but never silent, I speak my mind, and stand defiant, Born small in a world of giants, I understand what it means to be, born woman. I will not be second or told not to address it, The glass ceiling suppressing my people, WE ARE EQUAL! I speak with passion, cuz I see it happen, Young mama wit a baby inside, At the abortion clinic she cries Cuz she don't know what to do, And got no one to look up to, Or career woman, don't wanna ruin her life, Can't keep a job and a baby, so one pays the price. It ant right, were stronger then that, We survived more then we realize, My generation of woman have forgotten that. Harriet didn't fear deaths chariot, And Parks fought to make her mark Mother Theresa Painted Love like the Mona Lisa, And Beecher became the world's teacher, Ida Wells become disgusted and called for justice, Don't you see! All of these women live inside of you and me! I AM WOMAN I AM STRONG I AM WARRIOR I AM QUEEN, I AM POWER I AM FAITH I AM MY OWN DREAM! -AIM-

Ulysses saw the world in a grain of sand,
Reading Isiah 3:14 trust not in man..
I explore the reasons why you were scheming,
my tears fall like blood when the womb is bleeding.
Reality collision, I envision the pain,
I'm working out at the gym, trying to escape it,
like a bird in cage, with my thoughts the rapist.
I want you, I dont, I need you, I wont.
I hate you, I love you, the shits all real,
Don't give me advice, you don't know how I feel.
My heart is a shadow, dragging behind me.
staring in the mirror and still cant find... me?
Marital Status, description of sadness...
Satisfy the temporary and it only hurts worse,
under the earth,
the core melts but we dont feel the pressure,
I know the circumstances are for now and not forever,
but under my breath, Tears fall on the receiver,
Ripping my heart...but you can't feel that either.
--AIM--

Maya Angelou "I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all. So you say to people who you think you may have injured, 'I'm sorry,' and then you say to yourself, 'I'm sorry.' If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self. I think that young men and women are so caught by the way they see themselves. Now mind you. When a larger society sees them as unattractive, as threats, as too black or too white or too poor or too fat or too thin or too sexual or too asexual, that's rough. But you can overcome that. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach." ---Maya Angelou ------------------------------ Food for thought, from one of my greatest teachers. Blessings, AIM