Confidence

Lawd, I waited a long time hea—

For This day when no-justice Finally sucked their hate dry;

I waited, thinking all the living long days how can I be This

Patient—When it ain’t even right no kinda way,

To be This way and still work and smile and pursue and love—

Against all odds and wins and defeats and pushbacks.

Living

Life—      

                     Days and days of Life, where heartbreaks

                           Dance with Magic, and 

                                      Breaths

                     Are as succulent as starts that don’t stop 

                          And Dreams

                                               That come 

                                                                 To truth.

By Erika L. Ganier