She: My Ode to Gloria

She….Glorious…Glory…Gloria She is hurt She is burdened Overworked and unappreciated She is love She is comfort She is home She is mother She is womb She is Glorious Glory Gloria She is rock She is provider She alone All the love She is there When no one else is She Glorious Glory Gloria

The Talented Ones

Who are we We’re the talented ones The ones that keep a day job Everyone tells us we’re wasting Wasting our potential But hey They ain’t gonna pay our bills We write in the night We work in the day We train at night Work at dawn Work work work Bills bills bills We’re the talented ones The ones who keep day jobs Everyone tells us we’re wasting our potential We Zumba at night At work in the morning We’re creative at night We work all day We do personal statements We work We’re the talented ones The ones who keep day jobs Everyone tells us we’re wasting our potential Work work work We're not phased we're focused on our journey We're the talented ones

Take Off Your Cool

Take off your cool you're not even cool I'm David You're Goliath You stand there just staring my body trembles inside I suck back the tears of all the bs years Take off your cool You're not so cool You barely exist It's all so vague paths cross intersect yet nothing connects Take off your cool You're not so cool Try not to drool Take off your cool Cowardice cowardice oh cowardly lion you have no courage no roar in your lame self No words to speak Things better left unsaid but it doesn't phase me nothing phases me wait no you nothing phases you Take off your cool you're not so cool I'm not fooled I know the truth Nothing was ever cool I'm David you're Goliath you'll find no intimidation here Take off your cool you aren't you weren't you're not even cool

Curse and A Gift

My therapist said let it out You need to breathe Cuz you can cope Let it out let It breathe Just be you, it comes naturally My biggest coping Mechanism are my words My open letters So I’m gonna air it out Got some things to rap about But I’m trippen Cuz I know they all gonna judge me Everybody got something to say “fam” say I’m a harlot, jezebel, but I’m putting it nicely Cuz I used to dwell up in the club Sippin on bub Highest heels and short skirts Having way too much fun Living like I was still 21 Time of my life I was masking all my pain Searching for a way To make it out of the dark Out of the hurt Wanted everyone to see My life was fun, it was dope But I’d rather have been on dope And here I am somewhat night and day I love the party life like Jay But you don’t see the not so glamorous life The promoters who won’t let you in Cuz oops you ain’t so paper thin Or you ain’t look like your model friend And they gonna judge me because I air it all out My hurts, my pains Admitting way to much To people I thought I could trust Lying, hating people Dwelling in their own misery Want commiserate on my own misery Brutally honest about My past and my present Dreaming of my future Cuz it’s so different And I write and write because it’s all I know All I can do It’s my saving grace Takes me away to a different place It’s my own, my very own space To get people who can relate Who need the healing In the words up on this page To hear someone gets you But the judgment is standing in my way The fear, the ridicule the hypocrisy Raining on my parade of success A gift and a curse My favorite form Of self expression Of release My tranquility My peace My therapy My release A curse and A Gift....

For the Ride

what happens when you vow to be ride or die but your ride and die was just a ride? What happens when they leave you? You stayed in it to win it but they peaced out on everything they vowed to you. more coward than rider It hurts more than you could know. Ride or die ran out on you and you you see them in the street and they don't even speak they don't acknowledge your eyes meet ain't no promise just lies linger in the air you ain't ride or die you were taken on a ride before you promise before you commit just think about it marinate on it cuz people say things in the heat of the moment because they live just for the moment they just want know they own it but when it all hits the fan he ain't your man you ain't his girl you was the ride you know you you really ride and die but this time you've died you're doa dead on arrival left for dead in the road and he's onto the next one on to the next one before your blood even goes cold. and so you left with the baggage you taking the wrap you holding the gun he pulled the trigger he robbed the bank but you're the one in the cuffs and he don't own it no accountablility you're the one punished scarlet emblazoned on ya cuz you were down for whatever down for your love down for the ride but you been riden out on turns out your ride or die was only just for the ride