#NoPoo Book 1     An ode to Gabriel

Just when I thought I was foot loose and fancy free
The same old power of persuasion keeps gently touching me
For once I willingly came out the pouring rain
Rested my sword to catch my breath from life’s stinging pain

Love letters felt with such beautiful ink stains
But you know God’s image they’re all the same
Their rules, their games
No causes, no blames

Roaming back in the jungle tenderly licking my soft fur
Animalistic roaring to hear my soft purrs
What’s a sweet kitty cat to do… mm allow the Tomcat to lick my carnal food
But first
I have to step back and evaluate my self-worth

A new beginning to embark has been blessed upon me tomorrow
Going for my Master’s Degree, whereas I have to rely on my brain to intellectually borrow
Letting go of summer embracing the beauty of fall
Engraving my desires, my wishes, my goals on life’s wall

As I kneel on my knees
Asking my Heavenly father to please
Relieve me of tempation that assuage my soul to degrade me
Give me hope as I move within this realm, we call life
Keep my head afloat as lessons to learn, do not cause me daily strife

Selah

Times are going to become hard for mankind, whereas, most are going to be begging to be placed out of their miseries. The elite will show their ugly head, and not by money but by power.        
         
Those thirteen families who rule every sector of this world will take their right hand at the beast's political side.          
         
I will be writing an upcoming piece on this and the war in the Middle East, how you can fight for a land, which is not even yours, in as much, when you are not even considered the original Jews.          
         
I have been soliciting for my Straight Talk Live essays /Poems for consideration to Essence Magazine and other magazine publications.          
         
I must thank a certain poet on DUP who has given this lioness that idea last year, much poetic love to you, always. In addition,  I’m close, one correspond thus far… I have been asked to change my format and submit a specific piece they are looking for…which I have complied, my fingers are crossed and toes          
         
One thing my grann did teach me ‘never hold anything dear to you but your heartbeats, because everything else will always have the power to hurt you, control you, or fuck you, unquote.          
         
And being home schooled was not as status quo as it sounds... it was hard work, and at times difficult to follow my stern grann's daily unorthodox teaching methods and between her seeing patients and leaving me unattended and cooped up in one of the back examination rooms doing, my lessons became daunting.         
         
In addition, interchanging between French Creole and when she became impatient, some other language I didn't understand and a hard slap to my hand when I sassed her telling her she made no sense, that creed only made me humble to the world, yet, never ask questions just react with greater instincts.          
         
It became frustrating, basically, I was teaching myself broken English until she had the common decency to get a ma'am from the village to tutor me.          
         
Oh, those days seem as if they were yesterday... remembering back, I had to read, can you get this the Encyclopedia to her daily while she cooked. I made it to the Volume -V- about that time I was seventeen, and that was the taste of my earned salvation.          
         
When my goddaughter does visit me, I make her read three pages out of the Britannia Encyclopedia, and not online. Great young minds are always impressionable by what the intellect read by books, not what their mind sees by sight (online teaching).          
         
Just a little reminisce I am off today and drum roll...  I am officially done my Master’s Degree Program in Nursing. With joy, I turn in my thesis in person on Monday, and try to sell my text books on Ebay, or back to the student store I will get way less in vaule due to Covid-19, they are only recycling them.          
         
Have a blessed Friday and a great weekend everyone