hiiPower

okay, so the last time i posted i said i promised to leave y'all something at least once a week. forgive me for not following up on that, i've definitely been slackin, but i'm still gonna set that as my goal. i also said that i would post other things besides poetry, so this will be my first post of a music video. i've been on kendrick lamar for a little over a month now and at first i must admit that i didn't like him, but now im in love. he brings so much more to rap than all the cookie-cutter rappers following the mold of MMG and Young Money, etc. so here's a track that i love off his album Section 80:

renewed commitment

when i first started this blog, i wanted it to be something that i would be committed to and that i would post with regularly, whether it was my thoughts, a short story, a poem, a song or whatever was on my mind. but slowly i moved away from that and started using it only to post my poems whenever i would write one. my posts got fewer and even more far between and my blog suffered. it was kind of ugly and barren, too, so that didn't help.

in short: i've decided to start over in a sense. i want to recommit myself to this blog so i'm going to try my best to have at least one post per week. and i'm diversifying; no longer will this just be a place where my poems come to sit and die, i'm going to use it for what i originally planned it for: a place where i can release my thoughts, whether artistically in the format of a poem or more chaotically (and probably more commonly) in the form of an anecdote from my day, or even a song or picture that resonated with me. i hope you enjoy...that is, if there's anyone actually reading this.

love

true love is unconditional
timeless, yet original
conveyed through messages both overt and subliminal
it survives the tests of time,
out of sight, but never mind
and yes, as the saying goes, love is surely blind
it is patient, it is kind
it takes us to the sublime
and at times, it realigns our minds to fit its own designs
reassigns the lines within us, never failing to forgive us
even when we fail to do the same for trespasses against us
it says the words we cannot speak,
carries us when we are weak,
it simply IS. eternal. unchanging. unique.