4 Poem readings šš³ļøāš
- Shana A.
- Feb 9
- 4 min read
Poems to Read
Ghetto Girl
Hey my Ghetto Girl,
We need you in this worldā¦
See you humble people who forgot where they came fromā¦
Living in suburbia with more skeletons than the coronerā¦
Your loyalty is a commodity
You love because you came from loveā¦
I see you hustling to break generational curses,
Selling hair weaves and bonnets,
after leaving the officeā¦
The realness of your image
The blackness of your spirit,
Upset those who sold out,
It disturbs the closets where they hideoutā¦
Keep walking with your head high in your neighborhood,
Raise your children with a humble spoonā¦
Stand strong on where you come fromā¦
I rather you be āghettoā,
Than a fake who forgot where they came fromā¦
It was that ghetto life that taught you how to fight,
How to survive when money is tight,
Itās the ghetto living that keep you dreaming,
Your faith in God that will have you winning,
Hey Ghetto girl, we are one of the same,
Be proud to live up to your urban nameā¦
Job Shaming
Ignoring chit chatter,
From the high all mighty splatterā¦
My future secured,
401k insuredā¦
Iām locked in savings & bondsā¦
Doing my part,
Solving the dissolve
While my business plan evolveā¦
I laugh at the job shaming,
Teachers underpaid who we blaming,
Whatās an entrepreneur without proper guidance of maintaining rewardsā¦
How can you say we donāt need education,
Without jobsā¦how will there be a nationā¦
Iām not ashamed,
Iām working, not unemployed,
My ancestors worked too hard for me not to be employedā¦
I wonāt wear out the springs in my couch
Sitting home not nurturing the brain,
My job teaching me the wealth of the gameā¦
Valuing every dollar before I get a million,
Following in my uncle footsteps to flip into multimillionsā¦
One day at time,
On my companyās dime
While I work on my craft
Starting from multiple draftsā¦
Bills paid with pride
Motivation to work in strideā¦
A CEO is a job position
How can we job shame
Folks making billionsā¦
Your job maybe different,
Little more independent
However, we all are working hard to make a livingā¦
Bitter Women Committee
I feel your pain,
Over and over love bleeding from the core of your veinsā¦
Iāve been there,
But my heart not the sameā¦
Recruiting women to be cold hearted,
To join in self absorptionā¦is an invitation of insaneā¦
I wonāt settle for a single life,
I wonāt give up on love
When God gave me this heart to be a wifeā¦
Each loss, my heart get stronger
Beating a song to love harderā¦
My spirit is rich,
And Iām sharing the wealthā¦
The bitter women committee
Belong to someone elseā¦
Iāll take each experience as practice,
One day my love will be the center of attractionā¦
No Queendom Pretending
Through remote vision
Your eyes see me as invisibleā¦
Sweetheart, Iāve fought battles to be freed from heartache,
I gasp at the idea of entertaining any thoughts of being fakeā¦
Iāve outgrown the make believe life of pretending,
Iāll let go of love if weāre not ascendingā¦
See, I deserve to be seen in your life as I exist
Undeserving of pretending your not connected to me
When Iām the coffee with plenty of cream you fiend for in the morningsā¦
See, I could never treat you like a tool, using you
I wonāt write our story if our love doesnātĀ come true,
These words from my heart bleed real thoughts
Soul simmering in real emotional knotsā¦
I cringe at the thought of my soulful musing wasted,
Everything I do is with good intentionsā¦
Love, being the victory of my missionā¦
I want us to bask in the essence of brunch dates,
Leading to conversations in the park,
Weekdays in bookstores,
Admiring words of artā¦
I know your desire to feel my silky skin
Palpate the deepest fibers of your beingā¦
Entering the burrow of things getting deeper
Whispering freaky things in your ear,
Into late night moans being all we hearā¦
I prophesied your vision of my tongue spelling words on your abs youāve never seen,
Exercising definitions of love
Mentality licking the lady boxā¦squeaky cleanā¦
Iām worthy of laying in consciousness of your feelings for me,
Since my voice waters you
Within these growing seeds,
I deserve intimacyā¦
A serenade of mutual flowers
Worth dancing in your frequencyā¦
Inhaling euphoric trees after all-night love sessionsā¦
My eminence valuable to let your ego go
To show the world Iām the one feeding your soulā¦
I deserveā¦real love,
I refuse the notion of nurturing our roots with my muse not in my view
Stuck in endless waiting for dreams to come trueā¦
If you refuse to love me
I deserve to strut away in my freedom
I canāt settle for less
When I deserve to be the Queen in your Queendomā¦
Written & Spoken by Shana A. Ā©ļø
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