Blessings and thank you

insecurity for giving me motivation to grow beyond my smallness

Blessings and thank you

back pain for helping me to know anatomy more than the average person

Blessings and thank you

poverty for forcing me into compassion for all walks of life

Blessings and thank you

heartbreak for teaching me what I want, deserve and won’t put up with

Blessings and thank you

child abuse for expanding my empathy past my own self rightousness

Blessings and thank you

failure for focusing me back on simple joys

Blessings and thank you

war and injustice for inciting a passion for knowledge and history

Blessings and thank you

disappointment for steering me away from codependency and illusion

Blessings and thank you

imperfections for allowing me to come back into my body

Blessings and thank you

life for never working out how I thought but always according to how I feel

Blessings and thank you

authenticity for bringing me to my knees to surprise myself

Blessings and thank you

self forgiveness for giving me perspective on others and a lighter heart

Blessings

Thank you

experience it all

One life

One life

before

eternity

Blessings

Thank you

This earth school

we think ends at high school graduation

but it don’t

This earth school

college puts the icing on the cake

but it ain’t

This earth school

settled at the office we reward the good

but they aren’t

This earth school

we feel done raising the kids

but we’re not

This earth school

got the gold watch and certificate to boot

but still want

This earth school

we know effort on the death bed

but confessions can’t

This earth school

we hope to get it right the next time through

but we forget

This earth school

is for now

but he don’t

and she ain’t

though it aren’t

see it not

have them want

watch us can’t

will they forget

This Earth School

A real man

Be humble

Not hard to say your wrong

A real man

Don’t lie

Less it be in my bed right by my side

A real man puts me first

And I doth do the same

A Real man speaks up

Hold each other’s pain

A real love don’t posture

Just to save his face

He calls me out the same

Sharing equal space

No bro’s before ho’s

When they crap on lover’s door

A real man makes a call

Whether wealthy or be poor

A real man I be having

No more papa mirrors for me

A real man I’ll be holding

Never

Ever

For granted

Together as a we

A powerhouse raising the bars

AmandaEnvy

Beacon launched to mainstream pathway

AmandaEnvy

Never gonna be me that first

AmandaEnvy

Shine on girl tell it

AmandaEnvy

Youth on fire scorching the elders

AmandaEnvy

Ripples ring elegance to ears over again

AmandaEnvy

a standard worth all

Uncomfortable

Guilty

Depreciated

Glorious

AmandaEnvy

Not one person on this earth can make it on their own and when friends and family let you down, we shout out to the visionaries brave enough to call it out.

“I give props to Mariah, we go back like babies and pacifiers”. Who are your hero’s?

Lin Manuel Miranda

Oprah Winfrey

Barrack and Michelle Obama

Lisa A Romano

Will I Am

Brittney Bitch

Queen Mariah Carey

Halle Barry

Iyanla Vanzant

Small town hero’s with no name, claim of fame.