Author: deandre

What does it mean to be black?For decades we were taught thatBlack was BadBlack was LazyBlack was ArrogantBlack was CruelBlack was KnottyBut if you really truly love yourself and your heritage, you will see the light through this false darkness. Love thy self. Love thy skin. Love thy hair. Love one another. As Africans and African Americans, if we…

My eyes awoke to the sound of mislead souls traveling. They greeted me and took me in with their community. I am lost. I was hopeless. I didn’t know who or what I was. Everything was ..blank. I was told stories, maybe lies, who knows but I was to abide. I agreed and everything seemed…

Every time I see youMy heart races ten-foldYour beautiful eyes catch me in a daze like whoaWe haven’t known each other longBut I’m glad I met youSmart, beautiful, curves in all the right placesWho would have ever thought I would see you in such limited spacesWe were destined to meet, we were on the same…

My heart is frozen solid, so I can’t feel the painlife progression, makes everything feel the same My life, the struggles I’ve been throughso I pop a couple of pills so I can be due Use to call me Daniel, so I used to fly with the winddreams got crushed and got toss into a…

I realize that now I have been chasing a hallucination The feelings I felt were genuine, but what I saw was my mind’s persuasion All this time I thought we would go further than ever Ended up as broken dreams, a line straight, under the never Was I blind the whole time or is this…

As I sit here and type these thoughts out, trying to figure out why Why do some things happen and some things don’t, my heart being squeezed so it cry I don’t understand how two souls can be so well connected, so much purity entwined Only to hear from the other that we don’t click,…

I’m stuck between two paths and I don’t know which one to takeOne seems promising and the other seems perfect for me to createI’m torn about which one to choose, I don’t want to regret itHow I long for a wish to let me preview both dark paths to be well litOne seems vibrant, beautiful,…

As she walks through the darkness of sorrow, her words are like light that gets sucked in and borrowed. She’s rushing, hoping for an answer to her quest. A voice echo’s, telling her to head east, not west. West is what she knows, she loves, and where she has known for so long. Where east…

There’s darkness but the light at the end.There’s light but darkness comes in.I promise you, positive things happen to positive people.Don’t dwell on the negative or the energy will become a sequel.We attract things we think about, that’s the way it works.Think about it. Write it down every day and the universe deciphers and lurks.Bringing…

Does my life really matter?I’m sure no one care.I should commit suicide and slit my wrist and let the blood tell time; a brand new watch I wear.Disappear from this place, decompose into molecules and shatter.Empty soul with a empty outlookI studied everything I could from the bookThings I was suppose to do, no, force…