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Dope Love by Remeca Akins

Supa dupa dope love

 

The kind that ladies dream of

Have ya heart skippin double dutch

The feeling we long for so much

Queezy kwazimoto crush you can’t shake

That mega bittersweet habit hard to break

Thinkin bout you night and day

Your mind racing crazy the same way

I want that ooo wee gut wrenching feeling

Keepin me cannabis high kissin the ceiling

Cannabis purp mary jane

With this feeling  I don’t wanna be sane

Make me nervous make me stutter

Feeling your flow smooth like butter can’t believe it’s not butter

Loving your intelligent  intellect feed me knowledge

Hungry hungry hippo got your doctorate from love college

Dopest of the dope

Your smile gives me hope

For happiness progress success but  I digress

Take away my stress

Show me love luv come and gimme hug

You and me girl getting cozy and snug

Supa dupa dope love

The kind that ladies dream of

Have ya heart skippin double dutch

The feeling we long for so much

No Longer I

I see myself on the beach shoes full of sand

Gazing out to sea as you slowly take my hand

Nothing seems to matter we are happy as can be

I is no longer a word, it has been replaced by we

The warm sun drowning us as we toe the shore

I hope this feeling last forever, infinity plus one more

No long are the days and night cold and oh so long

A smile spreads across my lips, my heart has a song

Your eyes have a sparkle that shows what is deep inside

I can’t think of a better person who I would have by my side

A contagious laugh and infectious smile is what I like to see

I is no longer a word, it has been replaced by we

 

 

What is Love by Trevell Pittman

What is Love

My name is love I was sent from above

I have a distant cousin named lust

who looks like love to those who love

only whay they can touch

Surface lovers is like a new disease that

is highly contagious

They see beauty and say I love her

or I love him but are lusting for the

drawings on the pages

The Internet, the Television shows,

and other media outlets say that love is only skin deep

Then friends and family want to meet

her or meet him in order to find out if they agree

Love is not about having sex every day of the week

Love is not about having control to rule

a life like you're King or a Queen

Love doesn't fail when needed most love

doesn't brag or doesn't boast

Love doesn't give up in opposition Love

works in two hearts to cope with transition

Love is deeper than the space that

surrounds the Earth Love is wider

than a universe

Love has the power to create the first light bulb and

grow up a child to be better than that which was before

Love brings hope Love is so dope

Love doesn't look at the distance

from a bridge to an ocean floor

Love will jump hurdles, climb moutains,

swim oceans, fly through skies

Love will ake a bullet, give a kidney,

Love is patient, and Love is kind

Love can be singular but is stronger when it is plural

Love will leave that which it

loves to hear the love of its life sing carols

There is a reason and a purpose for the making of a gun

which is to remove what's in its way

But how can the gun remove

an obstacle without its soul mate

A bullet, a bullet will make a gun complete

to fulfill its purpose in life

Love is the bullet to the gun and the force

on the inside

that unites a man to his wife!

 

 

 

Detroit 1982 by Song Yang

Detroit

In 1982 Vincent Chin, a 27 year old Chinese American was beaten to death with a baseball bat in Detroit by two Caucasian men who blamed Japanese car makers for Detroit’s problems in the auto industry.

By Song Yang

I wait for her every night to get home.

Second shift ends at 11 pm, and I can’t

sleep until I sense her in the doorway.

A midwest mom in the motor city,

she drives the mini-van to work,

where she stands on the assembly line.

Her broken English is enough,

as long as her callused hands can move

metal and steel one day,

leather and foam, the next.


I lay in bed tracing her footsteps

from the factory to her car,

always afraid of that dim parking lot,

afraid someone might mistake her

for being Japanese, afraid someone might

tell her to go back to where she came from,

and I want her to just come back

to where I can see her.


She gets home, turns on the lights

in the hall and stands in the doorway.

I pretend to be asleep but I can smell

the scent of heated plastic from her coat,

a smell I’ve grown to hate but need desperately.

Why Should We Be Grateful? by Ejike Uzoije

Why Should We Be Grateful?

 We look into the light and hope to change the past.

We hear the sounds of freedom and hope that they will last.

We look at our reflection in the mirror

and try to change the worst of us.

As we face life's catastrophes we try not to cry or fuss.

Because we know not everyone will see the next day.

And to do that is a blessing no matter what anyone will say.

We may sometimes not know that

we are looking straight  into death's eyes.

As our lives come to an end

we laugh out loud while the soul cries.

In our mind we temporarily hate those we love so deal,

Not knowing the next second,

minute or day death will do its share.

Taking them very far away and never to be seen again.

Leaving us to weep and cry to measly end.

This teaches us to always embrace those we love and care.

No matter if they bring us laughter, sorrow or just a mere tear.

As for we all know life isn't exact and neither is it fair

For in the end, No ONE will live or

be cherished forever in this world here.

 

 

Unsure by Alaisa Rhodes

Unsure

Why do I think

It's okay to chuckle inside

And assume I know What you want.

How you feel and what you're going to say.

Just to come to the conclusion I was wrong,

Feeling silly and childlike before you.

Scared at times ....

Am I coming on too strong

Or not strong enough?

Unsure ....

Why do I think

Finally my prayer is answered

Is he my soul mate; I know I prayed for him.

Only to experience anxiousness and doubt

Wondering, Am I over thinking it's real.

Or is it too good to be true.

Unsure ....

But there is one thing I'm sure of

And that is, it feels so good.

And that I want to savor every moment,

Remembering every word spoken

And imagine the smile as you say it.

Is it really there and...

If so for how long?

Forever.... Still Unsure