Beneath Your Makeup
And Your Fashionable Clothes
Behind The Tears
And The Scars Of Every Yesterday You Hold
Underneath Your Perfectly Painted Nails And Toes
And Every A+
And College And Graduate Degree You Own
From Every Job You Ever Had
And All Of The Titles You Earned That Gave Pride To Your Dad
In Every Breath
Between the Cigarette You Smoke
Lies The Hurts And Fears
That Buries And Blocks Your Soul
This Is The Mask That We All Mold
To Wear To The World That Tells Us "No"
Yet When You Strip Away The Layers Of Every Insult You Were Told
And You Question It
You Loosen Its Hold
When You Take It All Apart
And You Uncover Your Heart
You Find A Core That Cannot Be Broken
You Find A Self That Is In Control
And You Discover That Grace Is Who You Are
Pure And Whole.
~Mita
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
"The Holidays are Here!"
Situations Change And People Do Too
Yet All I Can Control Is You
You Who Lives And Dwells Within Me
The Spark of a Candle
That Lights Up My Eyes
That Fills My Heart With Laughs And Tears
And Reminds Me That The Holidays Are Here
For Hugs And For Cheers
When A Small Child Wishes Us "Merry, Merry"
And A Cousin From Far Travels Near
When A Friend Calls You Up
And Wants You To Come Here
When An Uncle Asks,
"How Was Your Christmas, Dear?"
You Tell Me That The Holidays Are Here
As Parents Cook A Meal With Love
And Christmas Trees Light Up Your Home
You Captured Those Snaps And Flashes With Smiles
And Brought The Jingle Back Into Their Lives!
Happy Holidays!
~M
Yet All I Can Control Is You
You Who Lives And Dwells Within Me
The Spark of a Candle
That Lights Up My Eyes
That Fills My Heart With Laughs And Tears
And Reminds Me That The Holidays Are Here
For Hugs And For Cheers
When A Small Child Wishes Us "Merry, Merry"
And A Cousin From Far Travels Near
When A Friend Calls You Up
And Wants You To Come Here
When An Uncle Asks,
"How Was Your Christmas, Dear?"
You Tell Me That The Holidays Are Here
As Parents Cook A Meal With Love
And Christmas Trees Light Up Your Home
You Captured Those Snaps And Flashes With Smiles
And Brought The Jingle Back Into Their Lives!
Happy Holidays!
~M
Thursday, December 1, 2011
"The Royal Female"
I Am More Than I Thought I Could Be
I Talk to My Girls
When They Are Down
But I Understand Even if They Don't
That We Are Much Deeper
Than The Boys Who Cannot See
That A Woman is a Queen Being
Of Sensitivity Of Light
And She is Full of Might
She Threatens Them To Their Bones
As They Cower and They Crouch
And They Try to Cut Her Down
But Still Her Spirit Grows
An Angel That Flies
High and Wise
And Never Dies
I Am Strong
And Yes I Win
Because My Power Lives
Eternally Within.
I Talk to My Girls
When They Are Down
But I Understand Even if They Don't
That We Are Much Deeper
Than The Boys Who Cannot See
That A Woman is a Queen Being
Of Sensitivity Of Light
And She is Full of Might
She Threatens Them To Their Bones
As They Cower and They Crouch
And They Try to Cut Her Down
But Still Her Spirit Grows
An Angel That Flies
High and Wise
And Never Dies
I Am Strong
And Yes I Win
Because My Power Lives
Eternally Within.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
"With Liberty and Justice for All"
A System We Call Justice
Where A State Grants Itself
The Authority to Kill
When Reasonable Doubt
Is a Moving Standard
When the Plea of the World
Is A Cry that Nobody Hears
Where Our Own President
Turns Away
From the Calls
Of His Own Brother
And the Life of A Policeman
Means More Than a Black Man's
In A Country
Where an African Immigrant
Came to Be Free
And is Shot 41 Times by the NYPD
And Later We Find
It Was All a Mistake Made By the Police
Diallo Diallo
Is Finally Free
And Resting in Peace
As Troy Davis Dies
Parting From His Family
Let the Words of the Amnesty President Say
The Light of His Darkest Days
Is Greater Than Any Manmade Court Date
And That the True Place of Justice Is
In the Hearts of Those Where God Lives...
-In memory of Troy Davis who was sentenced to the death penalty on 9/21/11 despite the reasonable doubt surrounding his conviction, despite claims of his innocence, and despite a worlwide outcry of a grave human rights violation committed by the state of georgia in sentencing him to death. Also in memory of Amadou Diallo-an innocent African immigrant from Guinea who was shot 41 times in NYC by the NYPD, and for the many others who are a testament to the injustice of the criminal justice system and whose light and lives may inspire us to live rightly in freedom.
Where A State Grants Itself
The Authority to Kill
When Reasonable Doubt
Is a Moving Standard
When the Plea of the World
Is A Cry that Nobody Hears
Where Our Own President
Turns Away
From the Calls
Of His Own Brother
And the Life of A Policeman
Means More Than a Black Man's
In A Country
Where an African Immigrant
Came to Be Free
And is Shot 41 Times by the NYPD
And Later We Find
It Was All a Mistake Made By the Police
Diallo Diallo
Is Finally Free
And Resting in Peace
As Troy Davis Dies
Parting From His Family
Let the Words of the Amnesty President Say
The Light of His Darkest Days
Is Greater Than Any Manmade Court Date
And That the True Place of Justice Is
In the Hearts of Those Where God Lives...
-In memory of Troy Davis who was sentenced to the death penalty on 9/21/11 despite the reasonable doubt surrounding his conviction, despite claims of his innocence, and despite a worlwide outcry of a grave human rights violation committed by the state of georgia in sentencing him to death. Also in memory of Amadou Diallo-an innocent African immigrant from Guinea who was shot 41 times in NYC by the NYPD, and for the many others who are a testament to the injustice of the criminal justice system and whose light and lives may inspire us to live rightly in freedom.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
"A-Live"
Now is Living
And All the Nows that Ever Will Be
Make Up Your Life which is Eternity
Will You Promise Then to Make them Your Best
And Tell the Past and Future to Take Rest?
For They are Myths that Don't Exist
And Let Your Mind Take its Right Place
So You Can Observe That Space
Where Stillness Speaks
And Silence Sings
And Your Heart Teachs You a New Way to Live.
And All the Nows that Ever Will Be
Make Up Your Life which is Eternity
Will You Promise Then to Make them Your Best
And Tell the Past and Future to Take Rest?
For They are Myths that Don't Exist
And Let Your Mind Take its Right Place
So You Can Observe That Space
Where Stillness Speaks
And Silence Sings
And Your Heart Teachs You a New Way to Live.
Saturday, August 20, 2011
"The Texture of Living"
Have You Ever Been With Someone
Who Stopped All Of Time?
Or Realized That You Had Tears
But Don't Know From Where They Had Come?
Is This Grace
To Know The Softness Of Living
To Feel The Space
That Rests In Every Moment
Like The Quiet Churning
Of The Night's Black Ocean Waves
What Does It Mean to Live?
Is Life In The Breath?
Or Is It In A Mind That Is Free
A Heart That Is Open
And A Soul That Flies?
Who Stopped All Of Time?
Or Realized That You Had Tears
But Don't Know From Where They Had Come?
Is This Grace
To Know The Softness Of Living
To Feel The Space
That Rests In Every Moment
Like The Quiet Churning
Of The Night's Black Ocean Waves
What Does It Mean to Live?
Is Life In The Breath?
Or Is It In A Mind That Is Free
A Heart That Is Open
And A Soul That Flies?
Monday, June 20, 2011
"To You"
On My Own Is The Place To Be
Whether In My Studio Alone
Or With Friends Surrounding Me
A Phone Call From An Aunt
Then A Drink With A Friend
A Day With My Client In Court
Or Relating With My Coach of Life
It Does Not Matter To Whom I Go
Because It Is I Who Always Knows
That The Light Will Surely Show
As My Heart Continuously Glows.
~Mita
Whether In My Studio Alone
Or With Friends Surrounding Me
A Phone Call From An Aunt
Then A Drink With A Friend
A Day With My Client In Court
Or Relating With My Coach of Life
It Does Not Matter To Whom I Go
Because It Is I Who Always Knows
That The Light Will Surely Show
As My Heart Continuously Glows.
~Mita
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