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Standing by myself


I'm standing But not to be arrogant But to issue a challenge To those "independent women"… Will all the good women…please stand up If you are a real woman then you know just where I'm coming from When I tell you that I am not the one I'm not the one to spend money on you Buy a pair of shoes So you can walk and hold hands with another dude While I'm at home calling your cell like a fool Please stand up Those real women not influenced by Destiny's Child Those women who want to stay at home and chill instead of going to the club acting wild And even if you're at the club, you keep a low profile And not trying to hustle a drink out of me with some ass-shaking and a smile Please stand up Because these songs have gotten me to believe that you all are dead Can't give you a compliment without you getting a bighead Can't have a conversation without it leading to the bed Too busy paying attention at the gators on my feet instead of the words I just said Please stand up Because these songs have gotten you to believe that you need a Timbaland-wearin-du-rag-havin-pistol-packin-pants-saggin-car-stop-but-wheels- still-spinning-in-the-streets-doing-nothing-but-sinning-living-at-home-with-his-mother-THUG-ASS-BROTHER Please stand up If you can comprehend that I am the brother that's able To keep a job to pay for the telephone, lights, and cable And also put food on that table Please stand up If you not gonna spit game Wait for me to trick out change And love is the only thing that you're trying to gain Please stand up If you can go through the hardship Of a relationship Instead of skipping out like a… Please stand up If a good man is something you can value If you are a girl that always stay true If this poem is talking about you Please stand up Because this is the girl that I want to pursue And all you other girls Please… remain seated.
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Naquie

I been writing poems since I was little and I never really felt like I was in a good enough position to share them until I started slam poetry .that's when I realized that expressing my feelings and taking parts of my heart and putting it into my poems for people that might be going through the same thing as me to read and relate and to see that their not the only ones going through what their going through . Also I started to put them up on here so my fiancé can read them #Evie

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