So, this is my own words, not someone else writing them, but they are copied and pasted.
What the heck, we are not in the middle of the Blogging For Progress Scholarship season, I figured why not.
I wanted to share this with you all.
This scholarship ends on Jan 5th, any and all that want to enter, PLEASE DO!
here is the link http://leeraito.com/stumbleupon-blog-contest/#comment-1453
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Came upon this nicely crafted thought turned into action, with the help of money that you are sharing with those that need it and deserve it, while I was searching for how to network my blog. I finally had the courage to share things I had kept secret from a few people who have probably known me the longest and, might have thought, the best.
Things have been tough the past few years but I have survived and will survive, “the best of times and the worst of times…” which is my current facebook status. I will never forget dropping out of University of Penn and then leaving one semester unfinished because of my grandmother’s death…yet, I will take these as lessons learned because without living, you don’t learn. Hold tight to your dreams is the message I want to live and breathe, to make it come alive so I can say to others sincerely and strongly…Never Ever Give Up.
This is a poem that I wrote on December 18th…and it applies to me, my life and what I am fighting for or aim for…however you want to describe it. My charity will most likely be the ProgressiveU website blogging commonplace that has helped me make my time blogging invaluable and priceless.
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What I Want
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I can not be human
I can not live the way they lived
I can not love secretly
I can not be me
I can not breathe freely
I can not speak passionately
I can not hate on hate
I can not call it as I see it
I can not tell it as it is
I can not be remembered
I can not be loved
I can not be missed
I can not be innocent
I can not be an un-corrupted version of me
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I want to be a compassionate human, as ones passed, in present memory
I want to live like they lived on, in hearts eternally
I want to fly freely and reach heights, not unheard of
I want to love openly unconciously, breathe unthinkingly
I want to let the heart race to unhealthy speeds, courting death lovingly
I want to mouth words to freely honor memories of loved, and shame living dead
I want to hate hate, without trying to forget love drives out hate
I want to preach others to love, unconditionally
I want to teach kids being purple is to live, beautifully
I want to open doors that are locked, since centuries
I want to enjoy me jaded and to share it, guilt-free
I want to curse at those that hatefully curse, loudly
I want to live happily as this me, that is contradictory
I want to see all that is for me to see, as a human
I want those that love me to kiss me, worry-free
I want the ones who miss me to send love to me, not cheaply
I want those that I remember to remember to hug me, warmly
By asmaw - December 18th, 2008
music aficionados, where is my title or heading for this blog from?
although there's probably a lot of songs with those words but it shouldn't be too hard if you know me/added me on facebook.
Is Muslim another subset or part of being Black ? I want to go home where they don't look at me as if I am an alien from outer space...come to destroy, to torture their planet.
Wan