Monica Lanier Poems

Pull the trigger, shoot me as I run
From the phrases ricocheting from your mouth like a loaded gun
So you say I am nothing, nor will I ever be
Worthless and I am no one is how you just defined me
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I'd rather be
One with a rebellious mind
Entwined in a poets rhyme
Going back and forth in time
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Tumbling beneath the wings of destruction
I vow to let nothing, break my grind
I am gone shine, blow your mind
Accelerate before I decline
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She is the adhesive that keeps it together
Tougher than leather
Unpredictable like the weather
Yet still, she is a sheer piece of heaven
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This world is full of many different things
But never underestimate the tragedies it may bring
Life will present many different paths
Misgivings, frustrations and mishaps
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"I AM"

Someone ask me who am I, and I replied,
I am the quiet storm armed with a perplex rhapsody
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GOD in his exuberant splendor
Rendered, me a second chance
He outstretched his hands
Whispering my child, just trust and believe in me
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I see you
A bountiful kinetic indigo blue
Beautiful affluent and alive
Do you see yourself?
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Just because I love you, I look away
And try to dodge the pain you shoot each day
Wounded I find the strength to move on
Yet it plays in automatic rotation like a ole blues song
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Big mama sings out loud and out of tune.
"Has anyone seen my walking shoes."
Them shoes have been with me when I had nothing to eat.
No roof over my head my home was on the streets.
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