I Am...

I AM…

I am a soul searching for my next quest

Ready to determine my next victory like conquest

I am filled with difficulties and mysteries like your next math test

I am radiant, brilliant and bright

Never out of mind nor out of sight

Stand out like the sun because I’m full of light

That’s just my personality, and you still try to figure me out like a game of mentality

As a teen I carry burdens hard to shoulder like gravity

Pray to God every day that miracles happen and I don’t have to go through the pain of tragedy

I Am…

I am a young educated black woman at times with the mind of a feminist

Against the discrimination of men toward women who are straight misogynist

My sisters were built strong so let me know if you all are hearing this

And when the soul hits you know I’m down with black power

Against that black on black crime and when I preach it’s to empower

Preaching to my brothers and sisters, making them conscious on what’s happening

So instead of my people taking lives, I’m teaching them how to salvage it

And Black Lives Do Matter, but that’s something ignorance will never get

My people will rise, and until the end of the days, we will never quit

I Am…

What I’m not is invisible

I’m not an abstract idea or an imaginary thought, I’m visual

I am heard and I am seen

And when I speak I articulate so that everyone knows what I mean

What I’m not is a voiceless soul unable to be heard

Because this poem proves otherwise, as well as past events that occurred

So when you ask me who I am, I am a girl with spoken words.