It's hard to accept that you're not wanted anymore…
It's hard to feel when they don't feel anything for yuou anymore…
It's hard to move on though you see that they have moved on to another…
And you're stuck lying motionless in the gutter with your heart crying out as it is torn asunder….
Who's smiles on the inside…
Who's gets a case of melancholy every now and then (it occurs more frequently now)…
Who loves music and can't sleep without hearing a few songs…
Who can get by on not much sleep…
Who worries and has fears….
Who wears clothes that she feels and is comfortable in…
Who is an pessimistic optimist…
Who knows she can write but feels discouraged about it…
Who wants to be in love but knows most likely that won't happen and has chosen to accept the reality of it all…
Who wants to travel and see the world…
Who's working on growing her dreads…
Who might take the title of cookie monster from Cookie Monster…
Who loves her dog Buster…
Who loves her family…
Who's overcoming her fear of driving…
Who's living with Grave's Disease…
Who thinks that this thing called life is constantly making fun of her…
Who sometimes wants to sleep and never wake up…
Who doesn't cry about things that most folks do…
Who has a hard time trusting people and when they hurt her they have a long road ahead of them to earn her trust back…
Who wants to get her land and have her own space…
Who loves the color purple (the actual color not the film (though the film was good)) and despises the pink (the actual color not the singer (whom I'm a fan of)…
Who smiles when the rain comes down and the moon is full…
As I begin my journey into mystery I find a deadpool of zombie criminals craving to devour the punisher of their souls.
Moving on, I end up in the middle of a fight between a teenage mutant ninja turtle who's striking with his bow a Batwing.
Finally, I end up back in Dahomey training amongst the amazons and I meet a real Wonder Woman.
Copyright 1/19/12
Talisha Harrison
I am the butt of your joke.
You ask for my number but never call
This must of been soo funny to you…
-HOWEVER-
I figure you're just too immature to speak
to a woman who's older than yourself, so you
CHICKENED OUT…
Now who's the butt of your joke?
By Talisha Harrison aka Tali Adina
Copyright November 16th 2011
Dear Hair,
Ever since I’ve existed in the world, you’ve been there with me. We’ve been through a lot of stuff . From black kids making fun of us and asking me why don’t I have a perm to you falling out due to failing perm jobs, stress, and me being sick (I have Graves Disease). But we’ve always bounced back.
Now as I look at you in the mirror, I’m very happy to say that I love you.
I love that you’re natural and you don’t have any chemicals in you. True, there are times after combing you that I want to shave you completely off due to the difficulties of nappiness-but I never do.
I hope that as we move toward the future days that we live a while longer and that when we start to grow grey and older that we’ll still be there through good times and bad….
I Am Not My Hair by India.Arie
[Talking:]
Is that India.Arie? What happened to her hair? Ha ha ha ha ha
Dat dad a dat da [4x] Dad a ooh
[Verse 1]
Little girl with the press and curl
Age eight I got a Jheri curl
Thirteen I got a relaxer
I was a source of so much laughter
At fifteen when it all broke off
Eighteen and went all natural
February two thousand and two
I went and did
What I had to do
Because it was time to change my life
To become the women that I am inside
Ninety-seven dreadlock all gone
I looked in the mirror
For the first time and saw that HEY….
[Chorus]
I am not my hair
I am not this skin
I am not your expectations no no
I am not my hair
I ma not this skin
I am a soul that lives within
[Talking:]
What'd she do to her hair? I don't know it look crazy
I like it. I might do that.
Umm I wouldn't go that far. I know .. ha ha ha ha
[Verse 2]
Good hair means curls and waves
Bad hair means you look like a slave
At the turn of the century
Its time for us to redefine who we be
You can shave it off
Like a South African beauty
Or get in on lock
Like Bob Marley
You can rock it straight
Like Oprah Winfrey
If its not what's on your head
Its what's underneath and say HEY….
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
(Whoa, whoa, whoa)
Does the way I wear my hair make me a better person?
(Whoa, whoa, whoa)
Does the way I wear my hair make me a better friend? Oooh
(Whoa, whoa, whoa)
Does the way I wear my hair determine my integrity?
(Whoa, whoa, whoa)
I am expressing my creativity..
(Whoa, whoa, whoa)
[Verse 3]
Breast Cancer and Chemotherapy
Took away her crown and glory
She promised God if she was to survive
She would enjoy everyday of her life ooh
On national television
Her diamond eyes are sparkling
Bald headed like a full moon shining
Singing out to the whole wide world like HEY…
[Chorus 2x]
[Ad lib]
If I wanna shave it close
Or if I wanna rock locks
That don't take a bit away
From the soul that I got
Dat da da dat da [4x]
If I wanna where it braided
All down my back
I don't see what wrong with that
Dat da da dat da [4x]
[Talking:]
Is that India.Arie?
Ooh look she cut her hair!
I like that, its kinda PHAT
I don't know if I could do it.
But it looks sharp, it looks nice on her
She got a nice shaped head
She got an apple head
I know right?
It's perfect.
Untitled 13 By Talisha Harrison (Tali Adina) copyright 2003
Dreads
Perms-curly or straight
Braids
Waterfalls
Twists
Afros
Or just plain nappy.
It’s all good.
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