Monthly Archives: September 2024

Do Better!

In life’s vast book, I yearn to pen a chapter

Where every line breathes hope, and dreams take flight

To rise above, where echoes of laughter

Outshine the darkest shadows of the night

With a steadfast heart, I vow to climb much higher

Past every trial, where fears and doubts reside

To grasp the stars, fueled by pure desire

And ride the winds of change with arms spread wide

But oh, the path is strewn with stones and thorns

Yet, in my soul, a fire blazes bright

To conquer peaks and face the sharp-horned scorn

With courage’s shield and wisdom’s guiding light

Let this sonnet be my solemn plea

To do better for myself and all to see!

-Do Better-

Blessings and Love!

Thank you for reading.

Unwanted

That feeling of being unwanted

Feeling unwanted. Pushed away, casted out

When all I hear is

We don’t want you

You don’t belong

Unwanted

Hearing them loud and clear

Hear it in my mind

Hear it in my heart

Unwanted

I question myself constantly

Is it how I look?

Is it how I talk? Or act?

Unwanted

Feeling unheard, hidden

Feeling misunderstood at times

Thinking how can I be better

For them

Unwanted

Alone

No one by my side

Walking that lonely road

That feeling all my life

Unwanted

That feeling of no love

Thinking would it always be this way?

Is there something wrong with me

Unwanted

And searching for

Someone to hear me, see me and

Love me

In this world of chaos

Just unwanted

That feeling that I don’t like.

-Unwanted-

Blessings and Love

Thank you for reading.

More by Ray’Elaine

Sunday Quotes!

Today’s quotes are from Ntozake Shange

“Where there is a woman there is magic. If there is a moon falling from her mouth, she is a woman who knows her magic, who can share or not share her powers. A woman with a moon falling from her mouth, roses between her legs and tiaras of Spanish moss, this woman is a consort of the spirits.”
― Ntozake Shange

“let her be born / let her be born / & handled warmly.”
― Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

Ntozake Shange 1948-2018 she was a Black feminist, a poet, and playwright

For more about Ntozake Shange: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ntozake-Shange

Blessings!

Thank you.

#BlackWomen