tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71561108270742114092024-03-19T00:39:26.798-04:00Beheld By DivinityBecause my name means "God sees"BeheldByDivinityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908118582346387954noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156110827074211409.post-29280120515970333382012-02-20T22:59:00.004-05:002012-02-20T23:00:57.378-05:00DREADIES ALL GONE!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So... they're all finally out!!! And afterward I wet it all (my water bottle has olive oil in it left from when it was my loc spritz mix) and rubbed some Coconut Oil (which I ADORE) and Cantu Daily Moisturizer. So here's what it looks like. yaaaaay!</div>
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<br />BeheldByDivinityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908118582346387954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156110827074211409.post-73444262438056674232012-02-19T10:14:00.000-05:002012-02-19T10:15:12.083-05:00Emancipating My Nappy Roots Pt. 2: PICTURES!!!This is the 2nd post of two.<br />
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Here's the fun part!!! THE PICTURES!!! All pictures will appear in descending order of time taken.<br />
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First, a few with my locs....<br />
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Now for pictures of the transition<br />
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Just how long my hair appears to be in the pictures at the top is how long it actually is... at least 2ft long. In some places shorter than 2 ft, in some places 2ft or slightly longer. But with hair texture that many would most likely classify as 4c type hair, when you add water there is hella shrinkage. So, my hair draws back up to seem as short as you see it in the final pictures.<br />
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I'll soon post about other natural haired sistas who have provided awesome information on how to transition and how to care for my now free natural hair. I've learned some very INVALUABLE lessons in this short time on how to care for my hair and keep it healthy, moisturized and increasingly more so-called "manageable".<br />
<br />BeheldByDivinityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908118582346387954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156110827074211409.post-80506439076886802712012-02-19T09:33:00.000-05:002012-02-19T09:33:14.542-05:00Emancipating My Nappy Roots: a journey in unlockingThis post is going to be in two parts. First, the backstory... and there's a lot of it. Then a 2nd post with pictures of the "journey".<br />
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So. I promised myself I would begin this journey probably sometime during the summer. I told my (then) boyfriend - we're not together anymore - first, then trickled down the list of closest friends Nana and then of course, facebook. I had decided that the next stage in my journey of growth would be to get rid of my locs that I'd been growing since sometime near Valentine's Day, 2005. However, I would not be cutting them off. I would be UNLOCKING them.<br />
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First the outrage came lol. Comments like WHYYYYYYY and NOOOOOOO etc, etc. Then came folks forbidding me to take down my locs and folks who thought I would be getting a perm. I had to reassure everyone that I'm natural for life... and explain what I would be doing, and why.<br />
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It's actually pretty simple. The purpose is to be moving into a new stage in life and the next stage of me. I had had these locs for 7 years. For anyone who knows me anywhere near personally - which few people actually do because I'm just not the type to whine and complain and make myself the victim, etc etc but that's another story for another time - they know at least a morsel of what I mean when I say I HAVE BEEN THROUGH A LOT over the last now 8 years pretty much. One could actually stretch it out to probably a good 10 or more years, in fact or 15. I won't go into the grand details of all the main things that have made my life growing up tumultuous but I will highlight that what caused the most turmoil over the last 8 years or at least since I left home in Newark, NJ to go to college - as the 3rd person to ever attempt to do so and yet the 2nd to do so at a top tier Division I university - at Boston College in 2004 was drama with my biological parents, drama with relationships, family members and myself falling ill from time to time and close loved ones passing away. And yes, you read it right. I got here in 2004... and I'm still here finishing the same degree. So if that's any indication of the craptasticness that's occurred since me being here, then imagine as much as you'd like. Let me just say that for the majority of my life thus far, my parents have been batshit crazy. I grew up one of those kids caught between "family" disputes because my parents were teenagers who had no business doing WHATEVER they were doing and I ended up being raised by my grandparents - again, a story for another time - and there's also all the child support business involved which in and of itself is extremely hairy because my father also owed tens of thousands in arrears because he was a vagrant drug addict till I was about 15 and just an all around deadbeat douche. And then there's my mom who I love with all my heart but my entire life she's been crazy as a bag of cats and vindictive as hell and purposely sabotaged shit while I was in school (and I'm going to leave it at that). Most of that mess I would have never had to deal with if it had not been for the requirements for filing for financial aid... having to use your "custodial" parents' tax information. Apparently, my grandparents never had custody of me. Ohhhhh joy.<br />
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So in brief, hella drama with my parents - which actually became a brawl almost to the death between my mother and I, once - that almost drove me insane, court appearances that got so frequent that school administration gave me a leave of absence for nearly two years after my first junior year in college, faculty at BC and North Star Academy (my high school alma mater) assisting me with those court appearances and even testifying - shoutout to Dan Bunch, Mr. Kendis and Mr. V - on my behalf, my final EMANCIPATION from my parents leaving me as an independent student and person altogether, having to always work to support myself because I had no other support - not even gonna go into how ridiculous the child support shit was because even when it was coming, my mother would keep it on purpose -, having built up a life and credit for myself only for my parents' bullcrap to tear it all back down and throw me into huge debt, having periodic illnesses some of which the doctors still have no idea what they were and being left with the medical bills for all the testing for them, shitty boyfriends one of which was sexually abusive and a few of which were psychologically abusive, watching my grandfather who raised me as his own both develop and die from an extremely rare, aggressive cancer, and the same for my uncle and other grandfather, all who helped raise me as their own being more father figures than my actual father ever had.......<br />
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THERE WAS A LOT OF SHIT TIED UP IN THIS HAIR! I'd experienced ALL THAT and then some in 7 years. Even an aborted pregnancy.<br />
I'm one of those folks who believes that my energy and the energies of all that I experience is tied up in everything that is in, on and grows out of my body. To that end, I needed to get rid of all that dead hair that contained all that dark energy. I have grown into a place where I am much more stable, have rebuilt almost entirely and have grown TREMENDOUSLY as a wombman! I have grown politically, emotionally, spiritually and many other ways. I have "changed religions" so to speak... tons of things. I was allowed to come back to BC to finally get my degree and this is my final semester. Senior year.... FINALLY! I am an entrepreneur at <a href="http://www.omooshunewa.com/" target="_blank">Omo Oshun Ewa</a> and community organizer among other things. Also, my personal relationship with my biological parents - whereas other folks probably would have given them their ass to kiss after all that - has become much more healthy. That was more-so for myself than for either of them. It will always be a work in progress.<br />
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So... down to the "how"... Because after all, you clicked this to learn about HAIR. Not my damn life story LOL! But I didn't want to cut my hair... it had become "my Samson" as I called it. I wanted to experience my hair!!!! My entire life I was a victim of that self-hate that we've been taught as African people, descendants of slaves and all of that, about our own self image. Black women like me my entire life told me about how horrible my hair is. I remember my Nana combing, detangling and pressing it when I was little. She insisted it stay natural. My mother took it upon herself to perm it anyway and the rest is history. So most of my life, my hair's been permed, braided, cut or loc'd. I have never truly known my hair.<br />
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I had known since high school that it could be done, just not how practically. A younger teacher in my high school - who never taught my grade - had locs once, while teaching there. I wanted them too at that time but my family being how they are and my grandmother being how she is, that was NOT an option. But I saw Ms. Stoudemire comb her locs out one by one over the course of however many days. So remembering that, and researching the process on youtube and google for weeks and weeks, I decided to finally do it. And I would do it over Xmas break. But I started it actually sometime shortly after New Years because I was tied up doing other things.... and now, a little over a month later my hair is finally free!BeheldByDivinityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908118582346387954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156110827074211409.post-66761884981285171322012-02-17T12:28:00.001-05:002012-02-17T12:30:30.933-05:00What's in that Big Mac???<span style="font-family: inherit;">Every once in a while, I post about the awesome stuff that our government thinks is okay for us to consume OR things that are actually awesome to consume. Today the former.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Would you like to know about the human hair, duck feathers and wood pulp in your average fast food? Welp, here you go:</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.mnn.com/food/healthy-eating/stories/8-creepy-mystery-ingredients-in-fast-food" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">http://www.mnn.com/food/healthy-eating/stories/8-creepy-mystery-ingredients-in-fast-food</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This includes nice little excerpts like the following:</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Avoiding sand in your sandwich at the beach is obvious, avoiding sand in your restaurant-purchased meal may not be so apparent.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Silicon dioxide, also known as silica (also known as sand!), is used to make glass, optical fibers, ceramics, and cement. Oh, and chili. Used as an anti-caking agent, it is often added to processed beef and chicken to prevent clumping, and is listed in the ingredient panels for chili from both Wendy’s and Taco Bell. Most experts suggest that it isn’t harmful for consumption, but just know that the ingredient keeping that chili meat nice and non-caking is the also the primary component of diatomaceous earth, commonly used as a pesticide.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">just saying... You are what you eat....</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/"></a><span id="goog_392566604"></span><span id="goog_392566605"></span>BeheldByDivinityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908118582346387954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156110827074211409.post-32451835902543733972011-12-30T19:34:00.001-05:002011-12-30T19:34:42.873-05:00Vintage Poetry: Doom of the Kind Heart<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">It gives gives gives,</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">'till it bleeds bleeds bleeds</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">but never for itself</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">the life it pumps is</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">sucked out by all passersby</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">and breathed into "love" and</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">relationships later to be deemed,</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">unhealthy, destructive, useless, condemned</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">It gets battered, beaten</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">and a dozen times broken</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">by those promising to hold & cherish it</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">as if it only knew truer lies spoken</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">if it'd just keep its eyes open</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">instead of lying in wait, wishing, hoping</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">But it cannot see,</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">it cannot leave,</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">it cannot run,</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">it cannot breathe,</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">but simply want want want</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">and need need need</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">and care care care</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">and bleed bleed bleed</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">reaching for arms with a familiar warmth</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">feeling the sting of the familiar wrath</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">leaving it sullen, shaken,</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">cold, hard, blackened in aftermath</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">only to be warmed back up</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">full of doomed life</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">despite its penetrable fortifications</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">and its false strength</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">such domestic violence</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">goes unchecked</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">or unseen at all</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">for who truly knows its pain</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">as the casualty of a war</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">that caught it in passionate crossfire</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">yet it embraces its death</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">with wreckless naivete</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">with each new invader</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">as its selflessness pours constantly</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">without stopping to ask,</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">"why must you kill the kind heart?"</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">full of scrapes, sores, holes,</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">infested with disease,</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">refurbished with each new tenant</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">only to be raped and vandalized,</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">hasn't it suffered enough?</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Rightly so, kill the kind heart</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">with its insufferable silent suffering,</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">its meticulous melancholy,</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">its festering friendships,</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">its loathed love,</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">for with its death the body may live,</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">breathe</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">see</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">without the kind heart,</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">the mind & body are free</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">So here it lies</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">from its timely demise</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">no longer open to be victimized</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">no more tears to cry</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">with its nonexistent gauged eyes</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">yet still it bleeds</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">bleeds for all those nights of passion</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">bleeds for ever trusting</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">bleeds for blissful ignorance</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">bleeds for neglected and abandoned omnipotence</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">and with its last drop of blood</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">prays for compassion and forgiveness</span>
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<span style="color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans Ms';"><span style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">see the original post here: </span></span><a href="http://www.drytear.net/index.php?showtopic=20285&hl=">http://www.drytear.net/index.php?showtopic=20285&hl=</a>BeheldByDivinityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908118582346387954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156110827074211409.post-64881938982069855912011-12-30T19:33:00.000-05:002011-12-30T19:33:28.817-05:00Vintage Poetry: Blaze Up<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #ff99ff; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">I see you like... the ultimate spliff. I get such a euphoria from everything that i s you. i love nothin gmore than to be me and you, forgetting the rest of the world. i just wanna lie back, and drift away, enveloped in you like i inhaled the biggest breath. just like that breath, every moment and conversation and sensation and touch from you is precious. i hold it as long as i can, allowing it to soak deeper into my very veins. selfishly i want it all, only for me. knowing that i have 2 let go, i exhale, letting out not only the negative waste but the good with the bad because it takes all of it 2gether to make you, as wonderful as you are; thus, that exhale is a reluctant one. after having taken in as much as i can for that brief moment, i have 2 reluctantly pass it on 2 the next; your life is your own and i must realize that even your greatness is too much to be contained by me alone. pains me that i must share. but all of it to myself may be too much. but even when out of my grasp the feeling not only lingers but intensifies as time passes. my head swims in bliss and inebriation, sweeter than can be explained. i am beyond satisfied, but still hunger for more. my mind, body and senses expand like never before. and everytime it comes back to me i savor the brief moments again, only to compound my high. time passes and so does the L. but i am now are with the very thing that intoxicates me. i surpass whatever intent i even thought i'd had; i lose myself in you. i don't know anything else. and when i finally come down from my trip, i still have the greatest memories and sensations. the inevitable hunger and fatigue left in your wake ca only be quenched, though, by even more of you. and i am so thankful for such a thing of beauty, so natural. it must be divinely blessed.</span>
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<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #ff99ff; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">see the original post here: </span><a href="http://www.drytear.net/index.php?showtopic=20291&hl=">http://www.drytear.net/index.php?showtopic=20291&hl=</a>BeheldByDivinityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908118582346387954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156110827074211409.post-85477777944271220472011-12-30T19:32:00.000-05:002011-12-30T19:32:30.848-05:00Vintage Poetry: Can You Handle It?<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Can you stop the pain</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">That’d been set in stone</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">From so many nights & days</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">When I lie, alone</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Praying love, to never again</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Come calling my heart home</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Can you stand by my side</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Against insurmountable odds</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">With poised clenched fists</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">To, together, battle the storms</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">But still hold me in safe bliss</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">As my Black Adonis</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Can I be sure</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Like the peace passing all understanding</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">That you are my peace on earth</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Reassuring me</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Of my precious worth</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">So I’m sure that</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">I won’t be hurt</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Can you be my contempt’s cure</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Giving me strength to endure</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">The tests I was promised by the forevermore</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Can you nurture all of me</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Mind soul and body</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Putting my thoughts at ease</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Making all doubts cease</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">That my body is yours to please</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">And tease</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">In tender touches of ecstacy</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Can you handle</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">The task before you</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">To be like no other</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Willing to do</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">What no other could</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">And put yourself through</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">A gauntlet of passion</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Knowing my love is steadfast</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Holding me as I would you</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Can you ever see</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">And even comprehend</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">You & me as “we”</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">And that my love has no end</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">When your heart lies with me</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Giving myself completely</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">To make you feel finally free</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Strong, tall, grounded, dominant, sexy</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">As the man you were born to be</span>
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see the original post here: <a href="http://www.drytear.net/index.php?showtopic=20376&hl=">http://www.drytear.net/index.php?showtopic=20376&hl=</a>BeheldByDivinityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908118582346387954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156110827074211409.post-4253887314028699782011-12-30T19:30:00.001-05:002011-12-30T19:30:32.051-05:00Vintage Poetry: Send For My Love<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">May not know much</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">About much of anything</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">But I need him</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">For myself to complete</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Don’t know where he is</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Don’t even know who</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">But I know in his</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Arms is where I need to be</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">He could warm my heart</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">So cold</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">With all the hot passion</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">My body could hold</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">And whispers</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">That soothe the soul</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">He could keep my sorrow</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">From raining down my face</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">As my love would shower</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Over him with</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Such a sweet embrace</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">I’m not asking for the world</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Or even a grain of sand</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Just his affection and favor or</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">To simply hold my hand</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Solitude is nice</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">But all be damned</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">This quest is killing me</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">WHERE IS MY MAN?!</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">If he were here,</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">I would not have this fear</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">I could not cry these tears</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">I would not long</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">For him to be near</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">If he were here,</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">He could be there</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">For me</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">To fill the lonesome</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Somber nights</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">And grey days</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">That have come to</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Consume my content</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">To be replaced by</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Barren gloom</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">He needs to seriously hurry</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Without further delay</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">And once he’s here</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">I’ll beg him stay</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Because there’s only so much</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Of his absence</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">That I can take</span>
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<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">see the original post here: </span><a href="http://www.drytear.net/index.php?showtopic=20377&hl=">http://www.drytear.net/index.php?showtopic=20377&hl=</a>BeheldByDivinityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908118582346387954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156110827074211409.post-82344988655068325692011-12-30T19:26:00.001-05:002011-12-30T19:26:47.816-05:00Vintage Poetry: He Is<br />
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<span style="color: #cc33cc;"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">Such a breath<br />Of fresh air<br />And he doesn’t even know…<br />Know that he is<br />The gentle hot steam<br />Caressing my<br />Body cleansed<br />Making me feel new again<br /><br />Cool like the<br />Other side of the pillow<br />Grasped in my hands<br />Beneath our<br />Resting heads<br />Safe in his arms<br />Strong, chocolate, immaculate<br />Beautiful works of art<br /><br />The soft but<br />Strong touch<br />That wakes me<br />From glorious slumber<br /><br />How could he<br />Have the slightest<br />Idea<br />The idea that…<br />He’s the poignant<br />Summer breeze,<br />Kissing,<br />Stinging my cheek<br />Like the sweat<br />From his brow<br />Against my back<br />In the sweet<br />Embrace of passion<br /><br />That<br />He is…<br />The love I would love<br />But<br />Am scared to accept</span></span></div>
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see the original post here: <a href="http://www.drytear.net/index.php?showtopic=20378&hl=">http://www.drytear.net/index.php?showtopic=20378&hl=</a>BeheldByDivinityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908118582346387954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156110827074211409.post-69211137183816827622011-12-30T19:25:00.001-05:002011-12-30T19:25:38.175-05:00Vintage Poetry: Dry Cry<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">firm loving grasps on my back<br />and soft tender kisses to my shoulders<br />in the moments of passion<br />u claimed me as your own<br />holding me tight<br />my face burried in your chest<br />intertwined as one<br />your scent still lingers<br /><br />wishing to have you near<br />only to know you can't be<br />i hide my feelings and truth<br />full of fear...<br />afraid of what you may say<br />afraid it may not be as serious to you<br /><br />such uncertainty hides<br />behind your eyes<br />i dont know what i mean to you<br />i dont know what u think of me<br />i dont even know who i am to you<br />but its surely your heart i wish to get into<br />but it drives me crazy<br />not knowing how to<br /><br />please understand me<br />i know i'm a huge undertaking<br />i'm like nothing you'll ever know<br />nothing you've ever seen<br />nothing you'll ever see again<br /><br />and having made my mistake<br />i brought myself to you<br />open, weak and vulnerable<br />ready for the worst<br />simply wanting to see your face again<br />knowing you couldn't hide your smile<br />please make it okay again?<br /><br />i dont know what to call us<br />i want more than friends<br />u're not my better half yet<br />and i dont want to be too needy<br />so i can't ask u for the world<br />but how else can i explain<br />the mere thought of you<br />replacing what used to be loneliness<br /><br />so now am i to constantly wonder<br />what will happen next,<br />or what could have been?<br /><br />i'll never know<br />what sounds sweetest to your ears<br />a lie is all you ever hear<br />so i lie here in my solitude<br />to cry dry tears</span></span><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;"></span><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">see the original post here: </span></span><a href="http://www.drytear.net/index.php?showtopic=20475&hl=">http://www.drytear.net/index.php?showtopic=20475&hl=</a>BeheldByDivinityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908118582346387954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156110827074211409.post-6750437386424585772011-12-30T19:21:00.001-05:002011-12-30T19:21:58.173-05:00Vintage Poetry: Driven<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Finally driven</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Out of my arms and</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Into the streets</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Already further than I could reach</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">I remember the days I would</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Pray to keep you</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Break my back to please you</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Suffer in silence to appease you</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">In return getting love</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Seemingly everlasting</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Which became as my lifes water</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">And sustained my very being</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">I gave it all to you</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">I set the keys to the motherland</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">At your worn and tattered feet</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">To receive those broken promises</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Wiping away my tears</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">After having told me the next lie</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Throwing me into the next trap</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">But enough was enough</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">I had finally decided</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">So I guess youve found</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">In the streets what I refused to relinquish</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">And now you say Im too to blame for that</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">For the furthering poisoning of my own people</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">For another beautiful soul</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Soon to be lost</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">To the monstrous peculiar institutions</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">That have become the ghetto</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">It is that I loved you too much</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">That drove you to such desperation</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Instead of you admitting</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Your lack of ambition and consideration</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Driving me from you in the first place</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">To ask for my complacency</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">And acceptance</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Of you</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">And this life you have accepted</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Is to destroy everything within me</span>
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<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">see the original post here: </span><a href="http://www.drytear.net/index.php?showtopic=20476&hl=">http://www.drytear.net/index.php?showtopic=20476&hl=</a>BeheldByDivinityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908118582346387954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156110827074211409.post-52138854084119675142011-12-30T19:19:00.001-05:002011-12-30T19:19:43.027-05:00Vintage Poetry: Divine Mercy<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">God visited me today</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">And awakened my sleeping body</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Clearing my sinuses and thoughts,</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Heart and soul</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">With the firm embrace</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">To warm my tired heart</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Opening my weakened soul</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">To His love</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">That I thought had forsaken me</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">And when I grew wary,</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Filled my ears with the songs</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">And faith that carried my ancestors</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Forcing me to my knees</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">And with hands reached towards</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">The Father, He whispered</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Peace be still,</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Bringing tears to my eyes</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">That seemed would never stop</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Joy unmentionable</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">And praises to my lips in the</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Tongue of ancients</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">He reminded me to whom I belonged</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">And my purpose for being</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">My troubles would not go unrewarded</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">And that this life was not eternal</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">As to not get caught up</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">For my place as His beloved</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Is in His bosom</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Reminded me how He had kept me</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">And my gracious ancestors</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">And it is to Him I should look</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">And I could not thank Him enough</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Eyes still full of tears,</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">I humbled myself</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Bare and vulnerable</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">With my freshly opened heart</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">And mouth</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">That began to bellow out:</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">For every mountain</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">You brought me over</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">For every trial Youve seen me through</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">For every blessing</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Hallelujah!</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">For this I give You praise!</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">And gazing towards the Heavens</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Was blinded by the</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Splendor of His grace</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Saw my grandmother</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">And received reassurance</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Arising with understanding</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Not merely of where Id been</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">But certain of where to go</span>
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<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">see the original post here: </span><a href="http://www.drytear.net/index.php?showtopic=23283&hl=">http://www.drytear.net/index.php?showtopic=23283&hl=</a>BeheldByDivinityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908118582346387954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156110827074211409.post-72441238263641852192011-12-30T19:18:00.000-05:002011-12-30T19:18:36.576-05:00Vintage Poetry: Mr. Intentional<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">The road to hell</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Is paved with good intentions</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">While meaning well</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Preaching the fulfillment of me</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Mind body and soul</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Youve always managed</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">To keep that safe distance</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">And youre always disappointed</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Because my life keeps changing</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">But you forget</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">I deal in the real</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">What is palpable</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">I tried many times</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">And now know that I cannot cope</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Lying so far and alone</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Ears full of your desires</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">My body screaming</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">And soul calling</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">To be there beside you</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Only to be blamed</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">For your loneliness</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">And demanded to travel</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Those many unaffordable miles</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">To be yours forever</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Has been a dream</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">not yet in the slightest, fulfilled</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">to call my body home to your arms</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">would bring pleasure unparalleled</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">and my wondering heart</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">eternal rest</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">because even it knows</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">that there is where it belongs</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">but blinded by your own desperate desires</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">always too busy ignoring the truth</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">so quickly judging me for my quick fixes</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">always forgetting what Ill always want is you</span>
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see the original post here: <a href="http://www.drytear.net/index.php?showtopic=23284&hl=">http://www.drytear.net/index.php?showtopic=23284&hl=</a>BeheldByDivinityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908118582346387954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156110827074211409.post-8340804018669695412011-12-30T19:16:00.001-05:002011-12-30T19:16:12.417-05:00Vintage Poetry: Damn Love<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';">Why is love<br />So fucking aggravating<br />You give and you give<br />And you fucking give<br />What you don’t even have<br />And still more is expected<br />And demanded<br />And leeched<br /><br />It can be the most<br />Beautiful prison<br />That will captivate<br />Your every thought<br />Your every movement<br />Your entire being<br />And you beg to be<br />Set free<br />Because the very shackles<br />Chafe and bruise your body<br />And dripping with blood<br />You offer even it<br />To the insatiable beast<br />With its snarling and biting<br />It frightens you<br />But as you shudder<br />From fear of its clench<br />You whisper for it<br />Never to desert you<br />Through stinging tears<br />And swollen throat<br /><br />But you beg to be<br />Swept up in its flames<br />No matter how many times<br />You’ve been burnt<br />You heal your skin<br />You toughen up<br />Only to let yourself be<br />Whisked away in the<br />Confusing conflagration<br />As your flesh boils up<br />Your very bones scorched<br />Your pores themselves<br />Even call out hauntingly<br />For even your soul to be consumed<br /><br />Stifled and stunted<br />Torn dozens of different ways<br />How are you<br />To ever know<br />When to truly trust it<br />Such a leap of faith<br />Is unnerving<br />And before it finally<br />Tears you completely apart<br />There’s a blinding light<br />And clarity<br />But the cloud of uncertainty<br />Forever lingers</span></span><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;"></span><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;"></span><br />
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see the original post here: <a href="http://www.drytear.net/index.php?showtopic=23406&hl=">http://www.drytear.net/index.php?showtopic=23406&hl=</a>BeheldByDivinityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908118582346387954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156110827074211409.post-73170424151505642192011-12-30T19:12:00.001-05:002011-12-30T19:12:41.125-05:00Vintage Poetry: I AM<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">even when I wanna be</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">someone or something else</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">i beg to be what i should be</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">and work to fix what i am</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">I am</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">i am worthy of love</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">i am meant to be happy</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">i am not perfect</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">i am constantly needing</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">i am always me</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">needing a man</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">too much</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">when needing to be both</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">woman and man</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">but confused on</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">what attributes belong</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">when she grew up</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">not knowing what it means</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">to be a man</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">never knowing a man's true love</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">but only having had</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">her trust in men shattered</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">from the beginning of life</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">forced to be both</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">because being a woman</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">signifies being weak</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">in a world where</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">being the beast of burden</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">is passed down through generations</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">and gladly accepted</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">and nobody else understands</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">but always ready to</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">pile on the pain</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">from a long line of</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">mules of the world</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">caring for all those around you</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">sacrificing all of yourself</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">to better them</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">being the have nots</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">to make sure they all have</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">always looking perfect</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">but it's all on surface</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">hiding inside</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">hiding behind habits</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">hiding behind all the wrong choices</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">suffering in silence</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">dying internally</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">but somehow looks good</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">enough to be every man's dream</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">a dream constantly fading</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">never attainable</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">allows herself to be caught</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">yet retains elussiveness</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">the enigma that</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">is this Black woman</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">for she has no match</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">and those who get her</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">are no good for her</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">but her heart bleeds</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">leaving so many broken in her wake</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">she settles</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">and loves for love's sake</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">never being able to discern</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">what's good for her</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">and what makes her more destructive</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">and she takes it</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">she takes all of it</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">and learns how not to cry</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">being used</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">being taken</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">being lied to</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">being built up</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">being torn down</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">being idolized</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">being punished</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">taking his tantrums</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">taking his neglect</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">taking his complaints</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">taking his shortcomings</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">taking his pain</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">taking taking his expectations</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">neglecting her own</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">ever apologizing</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">for even possessing them</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">wise beyond her years</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">mother-load of perpetual knowledge</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">that everyone else</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">has automatic access to</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">but her</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">at such a young age</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">she's done, seen</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">and been through so much</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">but the trail of tears</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">seems to never end</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">so there's no chocie</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">but full-steam ahead</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">satisfaction is impossible</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">she never asks for anything</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">and wonders why she gets nothing</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">no matter how many's around her</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">she's forever alone</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">but can't get caught up</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">on herself</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">because those she loves</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">matter so much more</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">even if that love</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">is not mutual</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">a fighter</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">always struggling</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">barely surviving</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">but surviving still</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">never knowing exactly how</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">and definitely not why</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">she is not plastic</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">she is not impossible</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">she is real</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">she exists</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">she begs to exist</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">and she begs to be understood</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">she begs to be needed</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">she begs for the stress</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">and pain to go away</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">but there's never rest</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">for this woman's work</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">MY work</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">is never done</span>
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<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">See the original post here: </span><a href="http://www.drytear.net/index.php?showtopic=23402&hl=">http://www.drytear.net/index.php?showtopic=23402&hl=</a>BeheldByDivinityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908118582346387954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156110827074211409.post-33892167520440851582011-12-30T19:06:00.000-05:002011-12-30T19:06:09.611-05:00Vintage Prose: Welcomed Forbidden<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">The forbidden that’s so close I can bite. His skin smooth such sweet dark dark chocolate leaving the bitter taste in my mouth that I wish was his own sweetness… This cocoa colossus, chiseled and molded as if by his own gifted hands he holds tight to my petite frame, engulfing me, losing me in his strength and by even the sight of him I am lost to his commands and tender Hershey kisses. Do I dare disappear in our desires as his lips call for me to let go and… let… him… while his body begs to meld to mine in such heat making us as one in his arms yearning to hold me… he needs me… to release all my stress, he says I deserve it… but while longing to have him ever nearer I rebuke the temptation wanting to lead us both right, down the sure path to a perfect harmonizing unification of hearts and passion where we would feel that sacred word… wanting to let him fall into all of me not just to bless my sacred temple but make me believe again, even inspire my words. His presence is the true blessing and like no other’s making me long for him to be like no other making me wonder if he will ever utter that sacred word again and mean it or if I could bring him to that point better than I could keep him at my side in that lonely night where his unexpected comfort showed me just how lonely I was… despite my hunger I held back and he called me shy but not too shy to gaze into his deep soft eyes. I reluctantly let him go but his scent still lingers, reminding me of his short time holding me, whisking me away to slumber anticipating his next coming, hoping that it will be as quick as my pulse by the simple thought of him, longing for him to be back soon to fill those empty places and fulfill that need. My only hopes being that we are prepared the fires within…. Praying he has not awakened such a fire in me only to be frightened of getting burned</span>
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<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">see the original post here: </span><a href="http://www.drytear.net/index.php?showtopic=24761&hl=">http://www.drytear.net/index.php?showtopic=24761&hl=</a>BeheldByDivinityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908118582346387954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156110827074211409.post-43147281798853571772011-12-30T19:03:00.001-05:002011-12-30T19:04:54.019-05:00Vintage Poetry: Doors to Sanctity<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">allowing you into me</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">i grant you access</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">to the most deep</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">places in the recesses</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">of my being</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">where you can feel</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">the warmth of my being</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">you can feel the rhythm</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">of my pulse and the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">vibrations of my thoughts</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">you become one with me</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">you become the extension of me</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">sharing the passion</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">and our most desired vulnerabilities</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">and our innermost refuges</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">be not dismayed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">by the quickening</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">of my quivering</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">for as i submit</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">to your strength</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">you may succomb</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">to the comfort</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">like long awaited firm embrace</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">feel at home in my arms</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">my body</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">my temple</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">come into my sanctuary</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">blessing me</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">with your companionship</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">annointing my forehead</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">with your sweat</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">and the beautiful ordination</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">of a kiss</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">as the life giving rivers</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">flow like Nile and Jordan</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">cleansing the sinful fire</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">making our impulses pure</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">this is pure</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">unadulterated animalistic</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">yet human</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #cc33cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">see the original post here: </span><a href="http://www.drytear.net/index.php?showtopic=23724&hl=">http://www.drytear.net/index.php?showtopic=23724&hl=</a>BeheldByDivinityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908118582346387954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156110827074211409.post-43587118309848505722011-12-30T18:59:00.000-05:002011-12-30T18:59:21.814-05:00Vintage Prose: Forged Ambivalence<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Solemn and lonesome I sit here enclosed in these four walls like the fire enclosed in my bones, by anxiety beneath by very skin, cloaked by the distance on my face, feeling them tighten like my wind passages shortening my breath like the beating down of thousands of judgemental eyes bearing down on my back nearly breaking me under the pressure of being guilty before proven innocent. Losing my innocence to the defilement of the watchful gazes of wannabes who claim to care, as i am a porcelain doll on their shelf of trophies. my porcelain chipped, my beauty fading, nobody noticing because they only polish me when it is convenient for them. my plastic smile remains fixed with rosey cheeks and shut mouth molded together in the kilns of growing up in such a tortured blaze. Eyes of glass gaze blankly as the windows into deep chasms of timeless wonder, wisdom, want and agony. Insides hollow turned to chalk-white dust from being sucked as dry as my thick hardened buffetted skin. Bending to their wills, fancies and whims, still rigid and paralyzed from forgetting how to feel. The invisible tears still somehow stream down the perfect facade. In a perpetual daydream.</span>
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Actually it's for more than just some reason. It's because they're beautiful and when I see them, I see me. I mean this in a very intimate sense, not some fantasized kinship with other women of African descent. I can literally look at them and see features of my own body; a body that I have not always loved or been proud of or thought was beautiful. A body I thought was strange, according to images of women's bodies I'd seen on tv, in magazines, online, even in pornography. I saw these women and stopped feeling alone and odd.</span>
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There was one such picture which is my favorite (that I can't seem to locate) of a young himba woman walking down a road smiling, with this very sharp arch in her back. It was posted on facebook and a huge uproarious debate ensued about what she needed and how she could better herself (tons of inconsequential mess) and then someone asked if that arch in her back was normal. Of course it's normal! ha! I'm normal! <3BeheldByDivinityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908118582346387954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156110827074211409.post-55696061611587669992011-12-17T12:56:00.000-05:002011-12-17T12:56:57.940-05:00Nakia Henry: Transition 3rd Cycle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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One of my most favorite independent artists (have I ever mentioned how much I love independent artists? especially the chocolate ones), Ms. Nakia Henry. <a href="http://www.nakiahenry.com/">http://www.nakiahenry.com/</a> . Her music is always inspiring, warm, giving, and so self-exploratory. We could all learn these lessons, explores ourselves in this way and fight daily and love daily to keep that same peace. Right on!BeheldByDivinityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908118582346387954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156110827074211409.post-50599281028530331242011-12-16T18:15:00.000-05:002011-12-16T18:15:54.729-05:00What's really necessary<a href="http://lizettedeklerk.wordpress.com/2010/03/27/is-that-really-necessary/" target="_blank">http://lizettedeklerk.wordpress.com/2010/03/27/is-that-really-necessary/</a><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">I just find it very interesting that as soon as I get out of taking a final exam on Africism, with special focus on the heterochthonal (non-native) religions in Africa for 2 whole hours, that a friend on facebook posts this. It's one of those articles you see every once in a while about the apparent "atrocities" against people, mostly little children, carried out by indigenous African religions. This time the focus is on South Africa. For many many reasons, I have problems with stories like this as well as the ways in which they're reported and the ways on which they are commented.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">First of all, the woman expressing such urgency on this situation (although how much of it she's working or willing to impact remains to be seen) is white. That automatically in my mind presupposes a lot and unfortunately, after reading her commentary I was not wrong. I left a comment on my facebook friend's post to this affect:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">yet... i wonder how many babies were abandoned pre-colonization. i wonder how many incidents of this there were pre-colonization. white ppl always wanna fuss about what they need to do to help african people, but no mention is ever made of </span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">the current state of the peoples of africa being a direct result of colonization. they never want to say anything like, uproot all white colonizers and colonial rule. white ppl wanting to "help" africans is how they got like this. they never want to say anything about all the european and american businesses and factories, oil refineries and mines over there. the peoples in south africa in particular are not in a state of ruin because they're backward people with backward traditions, as statements like hers suggest.... they're a people under colonial rule. period. point blank. the whites are still the majority of wealth and ruling class there. soweto still looks now as it did by most accounts, during apartheid. c'mon now wit dat.</span> </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">My sentiment is simple. Although there are elements to Africism, its peoples, its traditions and rituals that we do not understand and may find absolutely revolting, AND there are some very old and unsavory elements such as female genital mutilation by some peoples, I make the case that it is very difficult, at this point to say what is truly indigenous and what has not been made an all new thing, yet called a tradition by ignorant white people, that may have stemmed from something indigenous but has now become something altogether different in light of the aftermath of the recent past. Granted, using abandoned babies for spare parts is horrific and shouldn't be done by anyone and upon revision, all peoples of the world can perhaps move into an understanding that such things should not happen. However, who are white people to ever judge? In terms of what to do with some children? Especially African children? Cut the patriarchal white man's burden crap out already. Africans don't need white people to "help" them do anything or be better at anything. They need white people to once and for all leave them the hell alone to clean up the mess they've left. They need their own resources in their own control. They need to somehow if at all possible, undo the political regimes that have been put in place by European rule or as a result of European colonial actions. I don't know if it's at all possible to have a "truth and reconciliation" of some sort that encompasses probably anywhere from 50 to 300+ years but I guess that's kind of what I'm getting at in terms of the peoples healing themselves, in that respect. If white folks can do anything, they can get their apartheid counterparts out of Africa completely. And they can take the likes of De beers, Johnson & Johnson, Firestone and Pfizer with them.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It discusses some of the many wonders of Apple Cider Vinegar. Some of my faves from this include:</span><br />
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