On Learning To Love My Blackness
Take time to fall in love with your flaws, your love handles or your freckles, your stomach or hair. Take time to fall in love with yourself, because when you do, you find it’s easy for others to love you too.
You Did Not Break Me
You watched me
Like a predator watches its prey
And when you finally caught me,
Struggle was useless.
Celebrate The Fact That You Got Up Today
Everything feels like it’s going wrong, but for now that doesn’t matter, because you got up today.
Hey God, I’m Ready To Be Your Daughter Again
Even in the storm around me, my eyes look only to you.
Love Hurts, But That’s What Makes It Real
Love is messy, wild, and complicated, but it is also magic.
Saying Goodbye To The Ghost You Used To Be
It does get easier. It’s like the universe is granting you mercy for making you suffer. However, it won’t allow you to forget.
Time Will Never Take Away The Memories Of Us
It was time to wake up, and I was not sad because we got to live in the memories once again, with me bathing in the rays of his sunlight as he watched me shine.
God Doesn’t Require You To Be Perfect
As long as you look for God, you will find him.
Write It All Down
Write down your fears, your hopes, and your dreams; write about the things that set your soul on fire.
Friends Are Our First True Love
This love is one that makes us better than who we are.