Staying on the run to get everything donePlotting the next chapter when the current has just begun Barely breathing to get near achievingHoping to never lose the magic of believing Yes, it’s a bad habitI hate feeling like Mr. Rabbit I would love to stop racing against the clockBut I really want to be among ...

Trying to protect the people you love the most from those that insist on manipulation How do you even warn them when that person claims to be their best friend It is so clear I can see what he is playing at but how can I keep you safe without ruining what you have in ...

The woman you seek Shall be yours In this game You insist on playing   She will lay by Your side With a bitterness In her mouth You cannot tame   Hatred will grow By the sound Of your name For you will betray her And cause her shame   Your eyes look Upon her ...

My heart completely shattered watching you long for her   Tears sting my eyes as you cleverly avoid them fearing I may see your truth   Sadness oozes from your pores letting my broken heart know   Your thoughts are consumed with the loss of her as mine are filled with the loss of you ...

Dear Silent Manager: While no one has all the answers, there is always room for a conversation. Please allow me to share the following from my desk to yours… I am NOT OK – my Black Co-Workers are NOT OK!! Systemic racism is an obvious issue in this country, yet it’s taken recent events of ...

The pendulum swings- delicate life. When goodness usurps, both blades of the knife. Nostalgia-when happiness, seeming so clear yet, soon the non wounded slashes appear. While riding crescendo, baritone lie in wait. Upon its arrival, the Earth trembles great. Terrible fortune, only could be yet, hours before, the world at your knees. How does one ...

Constant readjustments to build trust of people who continue to take advantage of us   The tears of their mothers, daughters, grandmothers   can take the lives of our fathers, grandfathers, sons   No chance to defend ourselves, for savages have no say in their impeccable, uncontaminated communities   Our word against their tears, our ...

Perfection isn’t real. We’ve searched for years to find it, and it was never there. Nothing in this world is or ever will be perfect. We can use the word to describe something physical or a feeling, but that doesn’t mean that it’s the true definition.  What is perfection, though? It’s a word. Like everything ...

As we head into the new year, 2020 seems bright with possibility. Resolutions fuel everyone for the next few weeks and the feeling of newness and fresh starts fills the mind. I love New Year’s. It’s a close second for my favorite holiday (after Halloween, of course). As I watch my timelines fill with resolutions, ...

Read part one.  Down Wilson Avenue, a thirteen-year-old Belinda sat on the porch with an eleven-year-old Becky. “There won’t be cake, so don’t even think about it,” Belinda spoke in an all-knowing tone. This was her second marriage. Her first husband died by public execution last November, and his older brother, Jeb, took Belinda as ...