Raised in the Kensington section of Philadelphia, poetry has been an outlet for both emotion and creativity since I was about 7 years old. I am mother and grandmother. I am currently a Strayer University student.
You are destined for greatness,
Yet you do not even know,
You have such passionate feelings,
Yet you never let them show.
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Sorrow in my soul,
Deep like rivers and oceans,
My mind is locked inside itself,
And I've lost the key,
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Tears in my eyes
But there's no time for rain.
My heart is like a window:
Nothing but pain.
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Lies wrap around you.
Suffocating,
Reciprocating,
It started with a school of little white lies,
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