tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18991278386536854942023-11-16T04:47:17.303-08:00raquel'SOUtLetNot claiming to be poet.
Didn't set out to be a writer.
Just needed a space, even if virtual.
To clear my head.
Keep thoughts organized.
An outlet, if you will, for my mind and soul.
Raquel'SOUtLethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04459302426556559936noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899127838653685494.post-36733996236819376422020-11-15T15:15:00.005-08:002020-11-17T21:28:05.744-08:00Crisis Unblocked I keep saying to myself, I need to put my thoughts down. And while I have so much to say about the current events beyond regurgitated memes and Twitter screenshots - I also have nothing to say that likely hasn’t already been said.
I haven’t written in so long, for many reasons. But mainly because I am no expert in anything, my thoughts are just that. Inspiration historically came via desperation. Previously have joked about only writing when I have a broken heart. Romantically speaking.
The truth is my heart is broken. My heart is breaking for humanity. All the time and energy we have spent criticizing one another for our differences, the powers at be in a tug of war - While our city suffers. Our ideologies have overshadowed what we claim to want to protect. This year has shown no mercy. This godforsaken virus has attacked everywhere and without discrimination. But the reality is that while we are all equal, the circumstances in which a person lives in - the how, when and where they fall ill will not be. The risk of someone catching COVID while working at a supermarket, shopping and packing my pick-up is not lost on me. She may be a single mom, putting up with all the shit that is retail during a motherfucking pandemic just to stay afloat. Without knowing one another - she is risking her life, so I do not have to. And I think, what more can I do? My lower self would say: limiting my trips to the store, being one less person is helpful. My business helps create jobs - I am participating in the economy. While that might be true, what happens when she does get sick? Quarantine time means no pay check, maybe she has no health insurance…
A woman in her 40s passed away recently of COVID. I know nothing about her - but that she was in my age group. Potentially, both her parents and her children could be mourning the loss of their child and mother. I have not lost either, though I imagine these are amongst, if not the hardest to endure. Without taking away from the emotional heaviness of mourning, the socioeconomic and psychosocial imbalance now shifted in that family unit can be one so great they may never recover. The ripple effects, seismic waves changing the landscape of this very place we call home.
Raquel'SOUtLethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04459302426556559936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899127838653685494.post-12391482750119567862017-08-17T12:08:00.001-07:002017-08-17T15:06:48.386-07:00Solidaridad. <p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><font size="4" face="Palatino">When they come marching</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><font size="4" face="Palatino"> arms raised, erect hands</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><font size="4" face="Palatino"> screaming rage filled chants</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 20.3px;"><font size="4" face="Palatino"><br></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><font size="4" face="Palatino">When they come waving torches</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><font size="4" face="Palatino"> flames flickering in the night's breeze</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><font size="4" face="Palatino"> wavering like the hate in their hearts</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 20.3px;"><font size="4" face="Palatino"><br></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><font size="4" face="Palatino">Fear not - my beautiful Brown, Black, Feminist, Immigrant, Jewish, Muslim, Queer, Trans hermanas and brothers,</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><font size="4" face="Palatino">You are not alone</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 20.3px;"><font size="4" face="Palatino"><br></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><font size="4" face="Palatino">I see you</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><font size="4" face="Palatino">I feel you</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><font size="4" face="Palatino">I love you</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><font size="4" face="Palatino">I'm with you</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><font size="4" face="Palatino">I am you. </font></p><div><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"><br></span></div>Raquel'SOUtLethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04459302426556559936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899127838653685494.post-5933017941777604422017-05-16T16:03:00.001-07:002017-05-16T16:18:15.137-07:00And She Was.<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">And </span><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">there amongst</span><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"> the chaos of familiarity,</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">She stood - timeless.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">Where my eyes glanced,</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"> My heart took a second look</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">And my soul knew. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><img id="id_b088_68a5_6b19_fab3" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhezexRmRN92MYDgNL0gmuJBTuW7pMZAW81ojb4HtwKXGQ7n60npgptJF2lpbJMKC6_D7fSnwUF317X2v2hPI-_VaXA8pYNuJZnbVjREoCjZdRXip3cdyWdbKJ-5rtPKYpAjxIHZHsvq-M//" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 353px; height: auto;"> <span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Inspired by the lens and love of @rebelesotetic</span></p>Raquel'SOUtLethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04459302426556559936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899127838653685494.post-72110033724184128802017-02-15T22:57:00.001-08:002017-02-15T23:00:06.289-08:00Mexicana al Grito<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img id="id_4afd_3194_c63d_695f" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwoAjdhGYWwNIDdEXkG8eKRb1pke8SzuwSTWc9omPN3UeN2ihQ7KDtn8Fr-pm1xAHqVMv3VdnTbD_2jewB7bHgsBW22U5QUUYTWp0513hnlf5JAxleIxx1rYzKl-fI7THrUwxYFtmUkCE//" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 298px; height: auto;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hijo mío, querido </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">No te des por vencido </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Esta es una batalla de muchas</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Que se ha peleado por siglos</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Cielo mío</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">No te avergüences del mar de tu apellido</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Del sol de tu cabello castaño, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">De la rica tierra de tu piel morena</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">De la cultura que corre por tus venas </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hijos míos, adelante</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Aunque nos separen</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">No me arrepiento de lo hecho</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">De sacarlos adelante</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tesoros Míos</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sean valientes </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Únanse a la causa </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Eleven sus voces, peleen</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Por el inmigrante, el jornalero, la indígena </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Vidas mías</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Que su canto al pueblo despierte </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A las injusticias que se vierten</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">En el corazón colectivo de nuestra gente </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hija mía, valiente</span> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Eleva tu frente</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ardiente fervor,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sagrado vientre, resiste </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang="ES">En tus venas, mi </span>sangre </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Guerrera por siempre.</span></p>Raquel'SOUtLethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04459302426556559936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899127838653685494.post-9452797570644528742016-10-11T22:53:00.001-07:002016-10-11T22:53:19.831-07:00Presence.<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">On the eve of the 18th anniversary of my brother's death, dining </span><span style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">with grandma, I wondered: will this be our last supper? </span><span style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Another question I've pondered: is it harder to lose a loved one suddenly and unexpectedly or to watch them wither away slowly? Having experienced the former and currently the latter, I still don't have a definitive answer. They're both difficult to assimilate. </span></span><div style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">While grandma remains incarnate, the inevitable nears. Every movement expends her energy tremendously. Laborious breath after laborious breath, lungs, like old balloons with minimal elasticity no longer inflate to previous capacity. No medical knowledge, background or experience can prepare one for witnessing life slowly escaping a loved one. Painful as it is, respecting and accepting reality gives way to resolve. I suppose that is the gift of being able to say goodbye - resolve. </span></div><div style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Last week, following her shower, I sat on the bathroom floor drying her feet. Though not a particularly religious person, a vague memory of a biblical story: "Jesus washed someone's feet? Was it the other way around? Mhm... no se." Next: Visions, like a movie reel, of patients I've helped similarly flashed before me. Accompanying thoughts circled through my mind, of where those patients might be now? Connecting dot after dot, following decisions and experiences that prepared me .... </span></div><div style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Then she kissed the crown of my head. No words followed, just her cute giggle and a sincere smile. Few moments are humbling and equally empowering - this was one.</span></div><div style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I am where I need to be - present. </span></div><div style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><img id="id_7f9f_9105_6106_618b" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDtJsNe6Hl1JV4cDQgNWxK9xlQzX-pc-xZX4IC8glRBBOjRT7Lfm3-LcmqU-tnQvE9EbwB_z7c7j_98-zb3iBGI13pojj5Z-A5A877v0l8ADkhsL6wHQb8NoQ0s_nSQJFZ5QOAM_tJK2Q//" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 298px; height: auto;"> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div>Raquel'SOUtLethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04459302426556559936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899127838653685494.post-36131466460928018342016-02-22T00:22:00.001-08:002016-02-22T08:54:24.863-08:00luna<span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">You're beautiful baby,</span><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Daily I should've told you</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Not a day passes </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Without thinking,</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Wishing to see you </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Under a new moon.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Night's reflection </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Accentuating your</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Glorious curves </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Silhouette engraved </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">In my memory, branded </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">My favorite tattoo.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgso7CMWwzzcf3w4EmLfW85d7qB0SyohB5pnVOPnUMdAdW19vsA-Z3pb5ZT0AFgVWcHrCtLx1TAVdqyXBPE3HJASEPqtrVH04d0FApR1zVTKyy2YzXn12syYmgyIC4Zzc8kyRxYLav3uZI/s640/blogger-image-1393631703.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Comforting arms</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Defrost this heart of mine</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">How I miss tender lips</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Soft tickles down my spine</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Ease the overkill, thoughts racing</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Trampling through this mind</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">With one foot out the door</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Though she was mine,</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">I was never hers </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Wrapped up in my head</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Pride tore, stole - the one </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZuyj2V_rhVsHGbHj4DwT937422k5pqWBkqojNsd1ehhVfWk3YPLZqHgvl_8SUqqK3znUckKlbprdNysSg9-_4K1xCckLS-sCilWxMaRMEhKyTtzkFLNNh3l9yLvKE-6r8bZBhpeiLpbM/s640/blogger-image--516420428.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZuyj2V_rhVsHGbHj4DwT937422k5pqWBkqojNsd1ehhVfWk3YPLZqHgvl_8SUqqK3znUckKlbprdNysSg9-_4K1xCckLS-sCilWxMaRMEhKyTtzkFLNNh3l9yLvKE-6r8bZBhpeiLpbM/s640/blogger-image--516420428.jpg"></a></div><br></div>Raquel'SOUtLethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04459302426556559936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899127838653685494.post-31989825304293015942016-01-27T11:10:00.001-08:002016-01-29T09:42:54.101-08:00Comfortable Silence<div style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Silently lying</span></div><span style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Toe to toe, your</span><div style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ankle cradled in</span></div><div style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">My concave arch</span></div><div style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Right knee </span></div><div style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Resting upon the peak of</span></div><div style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">My curvy hip</span></div><div style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Palm pressed</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On the crest of</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">My back</span></div></div><div style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Fingers nestled </span></div><div style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In the valley of</span></div><div style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">My waist </span></div><div style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Warm exhale </span></div><div style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Softly tickling </span></div><div style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">My elongated neck</span></div><div style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Rhythmic inhale</span></div><div style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Whispering me</span></div><div style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">To sleep </span></div><div style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As you </span></div><div style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Melt into me</span></div><div style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO88SUNu5Zpz2NRqQHYN0-NizgLSK9PJ-p7aAQtrzUciXP9c5txhMcpzk-pE-dS244h5fj2g2n67Vf-amWoQD_VBUr7SnvarwDCnosJ82NimBA-CfjKuTekcXikqP2UIblXlapQJcGkKU/s640/blogger-image-159903304.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO88SUNu5Zpz2NRqQHYN0-NizgLSK9PJ-p7aAQtrzUciXP9c5txhMcpzk-pE-dS244h5fj2g2n67Vf-amWoQD_VBUr7SnvarwDCnosJ82NimBA-CfjKuTekcXikqP2UIblXlapQJcGkKU/s640/blogger-image-159903304.jpg"></a></div><br></div><br></div><br></span></div>Raquel'SOUtLethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04459302426556559936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899127838653685494.post-52884665292394129602016-01-12T16:26:00.000-08:002016-01-12T17:59:40.843-08:00Sorrow.<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOC4SJuaEFngy6tkqjKX0z0s2mtE3b_N4hrzmcoqPonL9QyBuxiL1ZFZPXb9l89jzidhhDSBdu39swVInMJdSuYgp4kXiTjVm-FHjnPt5Aw9t8njVtOpqaHsJtcmqOK8CvBmljLlkWxjY/s640/blogger-image--1690952294.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOC4SJuaEFngy6tkqjKX0z0s2mtE3b_N4hrzmcoqPonL9QyBuxiL1ZFZPXb9l89jzidhhDSBdu39swVInMJdSuYgp4kXiTjVm-FHjnPt5Aw9t8njVtOpqaHsJtcmqOK8CvBmljLlkWxjY/s640/blogger-image--1690952294.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div><br></div>Mourning the passing of an icon, like many I saturated my senses with all things #Bowie. Went to bed with still a bit of sadness, but rested. Today, as Pandora woke me with Life on Mars there it was - the weight of a broken heart. There is a thing about loss which allows us to relate to one another on a deeper level. I'd venture to say more so than love or success, which we all measure and assimilate differently. But loss is loss. Grief is grief. The loss of a loved one strips you to the bone and rocks you to the core. Ever attended a funeral for a colleague, a distant relative, been there for a friend who lost a loved one, not necessarily someone close to you - yet sitting there, paying respects with an emptiness, filled only with the weight pulling from to the back of your throat, through your chest, into the pit of your stomach, tears well up in your eyes, thoughts flow of a loved one you've lost? That is the weight of a broken heart. Though you ache for the family and friends of the departed, you can't help but remember your own sense of loss.
We who mourn the Rock God have his music to comfort us. Today I think of the man and the family who knew him as such and loved him the way we love our own. I thought of my brother. Immediately, The Doors (whom he loved) played and I felt the urge to say: make peace with anyone you have strayed from, especially family. The only thing harder than losing a loved one, is losing them when the relationship is strained. This was the case when my brother passed. We were barely beginning to speak after an argument and it was hi/bye/how's it going... It took me years to forgive myself for not making amends - but really how would I have known he'd be gone in the blink of an eye at such a young age? It took me years to not feel guilty, but even now as I type, I choke up. If I knew then what I know now - I would have put my pride aside, taken him up on the previous offers to climb up on the roof of our parent's home, share a blunt, listen to tunes and stare at the stars.
Let bygones be. Make peace with loved ones. Made amends. Don't let time pass. When we least expect those we love are gone.
Death: "It's only forever... Not long at all."Raquel'SOUtLethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04459302426556559936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899127838653685494.post-42971640849344853502016-01-11T09:06:00.001-08:002016-01-11T09:22:47.933-08:00⚡️Sitting in the same spot<div>My bedroom floor</div><div>Just a few days ago</div><div>Celebrated the life, the genius</div><div>Reveled in the magic, new music</div><div><br></div><div>Today, listening to the span</div><div>Overwhelmed with emotion</div><div>Heart torn, mind blown</div><div>To the sky - Starman returns</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNKKn7eOlAPC5iT_3eR6JXZ6ObKwUHNWoWWGEQF_3YT9lHBe_FaYXW1OxqN-h721GGATMRirdAU34Kg4rmXGgtSnE8iWqVGAFoUbN2EccvTM_1yTqxpGW6eivx6AO6xwrQjiJJYt3OhaE/s640/blogger-image--9750742.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNKKn7eOlAPC5iT_3eR6JXZ6ObKwUHNWoWWGEQF_3YT9lHBe_FaYXW1OxqN-h721GGATMRirdAU34Kg4rmXGgtSnE8iWqVGAFoUbN2EccvTM_1yTqxpGW6eivx6AO6xwrQjiJJYt3OhaE/s640/blogger-image--9750742.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div><br></div>Raquel'SOUtLethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04459302426556559936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899127838653685494.post-61662881304384929902016-01-03T12:30:00.001-08:002016-01-03T16:12:28.201-08:00fénix<div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Didn't need a knight in shining armor,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> not a damsel in distress.</span><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Wasn't on the market to be financed,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> I pick up my own checks.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Didn't require tough love,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> nurtured in a balanced loving home -</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> reminded daily of my worth in gold.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">With all bases covered,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> didn't need a savior, but an equal.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mistaken fragments, pieces,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> thought they were my own.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Assumed my wings were broken,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> as you're accustomed to.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I was what you didn't know you needed</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> a mirror, catalyst -</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For unraveling your truth.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The light, smile in your eyes,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> the love, devotion, butterflies -</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> all real, never lies.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It was true love at first sight -</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> one that stood the test of time.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Just not meant to forever last -</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> it's ok miss, remember, embrace it.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">May it's light heal your heart and soul</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> as it did mine. </span></div></div><div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrKfJBc9VceLVJdwjAPKkErmNN_imKKCQdcfPpvX56fkHwPJH4I82X_MEpJO0WyY3mWkl17LTTW82owJxoTLCtxGGOEGnsObTmn6dLeFihqL4aLB06hFtZSXVmsyx6IXnAAaFkEh60lE4/s640/blogger-image--1932320193.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrKfJBc9VceLVJdwjAPKkErmNN_imKKCQdcfPpvX56fkHwPJH4I82X_MEpJO0WyY3mWkl17LTTW82owJxoTLCtxGGOEGnsObTmn6dLeFihqL4aLB06hFtZSXVmsyx6IXnAAaFkEh60lE4/s640/blogger-image--1932320193.jpg"></a></div><br></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div>Raquel'SOUtLethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04459302426556559936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899127838653685494.post-76137186141585288342015-11-16T18:47:00.001-08:002015-11-19T23:01:26.659-08:00Love and Light<div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Stepped into warm waters</span></div></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hide away welled up tears</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Wash away the day's troubles</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A time out, pause, reflect</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Thoughts replayed back to </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Conversations of days past</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Realizing these sorrows, fears</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Minuscule in comparison </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There are never words found</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Deep enough for a loss so profound</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">One cannot say "I feel your pain"</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Insensitive to say "I can relate"</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">While we all have loved and lost</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Have dreams fall apart</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Felt a rug pulled under feet</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A life envisioned turned bleak</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There are never words</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">One can say to ease the pain</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Drown out the loud silence</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Fill the void, the darkness</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Of all deepest condolences</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Thoughts, prayers bestowed </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But three words resonate</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> - Love To You.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><br></span></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5tcdZBoGcrExX15S_6HjOxYbX1usc7-jiiUTwN1aTLraSoznxl-jJu9MGd5hY8lcxVG8doFo9RhMQbIl6Bd5wz4UwZCWZo7Gvo1CwS4qy0y3dS4cDpCRYEO7rkBcPu7cjvWFR6wfcWQE/s640/blogger-image--104405261.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5tcdZBoGcrExX15S_6HjOxYbX1usc7-jiiUTwN1aTLraSoznxl-jJu9MGd5hY8lcxVG8doFo9RhMQbIl6Bd5wz4UwZCWZo7Gvo1CwS4qy0y3dS4cDpCRYEO7rkBcPu7cjvWFR6wfcWQE/s640/blogger-image--104405261.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Photo Credit: S.Rebeles @rebelesoteric.com</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I wrote this piece on 11/11 for a friend who lost his spouse earlier this year. Re-reading it after the events last week, sharing it felt right.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">For the City of Light, for Beirut, for Baghdad, for Syria, for all who have lost a loved one, their home, their country, their liberty... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The more love and light we send, the less darkness there will be.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div></div>Raquel'SOUtLethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04459302426556559936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899127838653685494.post-38932374592524529652015-11-03T09:12:00.001-08:002015-11-03T09:12:41.521-08:00El Dia de Mi Partida<span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">No temo la muerte, la respeto </span><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Es por ella que </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">La vida apreció</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">No sé cuando </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Ni cómo me encuentre</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div>En ese día,</div><div>De mi despedida</div></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Entre lágrimas saladas </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Dulce compañía, tequila</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Sones, ofrendas </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Copal, cempasúchitl</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div>Bailare en las mentes</div><div>Cantaré en los corazones</div><div>De mis seres queridos</div></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Entre los recuerdos </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Eterna vida será mía</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk46k87hT6nB0u7TyfA2VE6BXXyB0q2DwLACQP4CYF2zewVLDT-jRItM81n6gfo1gdnIF96aaWb-F4I379a_iyExRuX0LIBNfSNgk4J9cjmkM2RsiASGsYzV_gyGyTRiG_7wWjpj8hHLs/s640/blogger-image--1697745042.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk46k87hT6nB0u7TyfA2VE6BXXyB0q2DwLACQP4CYF2zewVLDT-jRItM81n6gfo1gdnIF96aaWb-F4I379a_iyExRuX0LIBNfSNgk4J9cjmkM2RsiASGsYzV_gyGyTRiG_7wWjpj8hHLs/s640/blogger-image--1697745042.jpg"></a></div><br></div>Raquel'SOUtLethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04459302426556559936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899127838653685494.post-40082087245998244192015-10-12T00:56:00.001-07:002015-10-12T09:49:56.136-07:00Brother.<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I'd be lying if I said,</span><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I thought of you every single day.</span><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">After all, it's been 17 years,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Since you went away.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At first, it was incredibly hard.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At times, I'd walk though the door,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bite my tongue, on the verge of </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Asking where you were.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For myself I can say,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The pain has passed.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Just as you would've liked,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Life has gone on.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Every now and again,</span></div></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I catch myself wondering</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What you'd be like?<br>What you'd think of modern life?</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Of all which has transpired?</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Smashing's 1979 came on,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Makes me think of you.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Coincidentally, the year of your birth.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I wonder if you'd be into the same scene.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hendrix, The Doors, Soda Estereo,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Writing poems, riding bikes, smoking blunts?</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Would you have outgrown them all?</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Would you be married with kids,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All serious and tied down?</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">I bet you'd still be young at heart.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">One thing I know for sure,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You'd be crazy about my girls.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I do wonder if now unlike then,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We'd made amends, be on speaking terms?</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Would you be proud of your big sis?</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Or still question my life decisions?</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I like to think you'd be impressed.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Not my title and career, to you</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">These would be insignificant.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You'd be glad I finally realized,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You were right about what's his face.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I like to think you'd agree</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I turned out alright,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Significantly more chill</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Than what you'd perceived.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Much older and wiser,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Surely we'd let bygones be.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Agree to disagree, heck</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We might've turned out to be </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- Best buddies.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bittersweet, life turns out to be.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Gone in an eye's blink.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Though you left with no regrets,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As the good tend to.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Year after year, </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We in the fish bowl -</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Wish you were here.</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf06maorEyKXwrclQr4xLLJguBv2zBV5pw1bYyq7T37NmbLXnwW5C_yJPRbw3M5sGLVyFy9h04_7xLzitI6PBp120vE4UK1XxH91AKD1AyLcl0Z8x7983MU-8jORdaKZg3vi967KhQBcE/s640/blogger-image-1533167465.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf06maorEyKXwrclQr4xLLJguBv2zBV5pw1bYyq7T37NmbLXnwW5C_yJPRbw3M5sGLVyFy9h04_7xLzitI6PBp120vE4UK1XxH91AKD1AyLcl0Z8x7983MU-8jORdaKZg3vi967KhQBcE/s640/blogger-image-1533167465.jpg"></a></div><br></div>Raquel'SOUtLethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04459302426556559936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899127838653685494.post-76904676349766268002015-07-29T17:34:00.001-07:002015-07-29T17:34:39.708-07:00#CeciltheLion<span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Majestic African king</span><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Eyes of Hazel, </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Golden Mane.</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Against all odds</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">A loner self made,</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Leader of the pride.</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">We failed you,</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Your majesty.</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Allowed the vile</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">To name his price.</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Disgrace your kingdom </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Your throne gentrify. </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Cecil, We failed you.</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Allowed the devil's</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Privilege, white </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">As his coat.</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">With his hyenas </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Enter the motherland</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Desecrate your reign. </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">We failed </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">To protect you,</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Your royal highness,</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">As you did your pride.</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">As certain as the sunrise</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Your mane, your name</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Will be avenged. </div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxNoN5oWkkCsyY-omcrNLaZ0P9phVn8l5pwjyeRXdeklFK_B9AsblM-7c3iy790y79TwFJaBMmZP0jaCqyGqpHkRtB9LQQ5VTHMxu9wvMcyM2VwXym5BRgPkhFdGMkTxRzeWewkfRLyTc/s640/blogger-image--606686419.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px;">All those years, I called growing pains<br>Discussions, arguments, tantrums<br>Trying to get my way<br>You stood your ground<br>As I did, to your dismay.<br>“If you don’t stand for something<br>You’ll fall for anything”<br>Those words you taught me,<br>Always stayed with in my head.<br>Through your tough love,<br>A perceived lack of nurturing<br>I learned just that.<br>To stand up, fight for my beliefs<br>Even if they went against Dad’s.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px;">You didn’t edit your content<br>Sugar coat your words<br>You didn’t give in to,<br>Your sweet little girl.<br>You didn’t hug constantly<br>Dry away my tears,<br>That is what mom is for.<br>She has always been my pillar<br>Gotten credit for who I am<br>Yet I realize, more than ever<br>One tough old man<br>Shaped my character.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px;">It only took 37 years <br>To realize the tough love <br>Of one constant man<br>Made me stronger, than any man.<br>So much so, I’ve proven<br>I don’t need one to stand.<br>For that, I am eternally indebted.<br>Through your tough love,<br>I grew into the woman<br>I was born to be.<br>As I am proud to call you father,<br>Hope you are equally proud of me.<br>For all I am, I owe to you.<br>Much like Cash’s<br>Boy Named Sue</p></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyyUiWmtRUdMXdh32cokMFdLD27rwITRNnNyDePgEOmkzzlL9Dpe8CBmo7ul1Y8P4cP1jjI5e766hK_Vz8pqrprpxXIK_sAIgtbrN1HYox4W8ofLikWMDNuyfvrOoz8aGA2FbQrDxiQpI/s640/blogger-image-521597063.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">'Bout returning from a visit </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Coming off the high of with you being</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">The thought was always there</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Though the words would not come </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Wasn't quite as dark, indigo mood</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Many moods, lighter shades of blue</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Never got around to writing them blues</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">'Bout all the different shades, moods gone through</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">From the faintest, lightest sky </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">To the deepest, starkest ocean hue</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Never got around to writing that,</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">For a song author I am not</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Though the words didn't come </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Maybe it's the thoughts that count</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Never got around to writing....</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Damn, I've forgotten what </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Drawing up a blank, case of writers block</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">After all is said & done & done & said</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Guess the thrill is gone.</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDhvNbtFhw2IAbz07-vvGdh5rw42lB2veJOapdOzk6K8A3Crvg2IoAVZK8GhO23V7p0RN5AERvQHnRLCGiVdLoPJyT2jThG4De6zBDetq_Gi0pX-dM524YQS08kjiok7etT-FwGv2lrc4/s640/blogger-image-183686341.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDhvNbtFhw2IAbz07-vvGdh5rw42lB2veJOapdOzk6K8A3Crvg2IoAVZK8GhO23V7p0RN5AERvQHnRLCGiVdLoPJyT2jThG4De6zBDetq_Gi0pX-dM524YQS08kjiok7etT-FwGv2lrc4/s640/blogger-image-183686341.jpg"></a></div>Raquel'SOUtLethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04459302426556559936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899127838653685494.post-14938048473113308032015-06-11T18:02:00.001-07:002015-06-11T18:02:42.835-07:00HIBOTAN🌙🌵<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Do not shower me with flowers</span><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Be the water, quench my thirst</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Do not over water, drown me</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Leave me room for growth</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Be the caring hands, transplant me</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When the world around becomes too trifling </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When roots are overcrowded tipping</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Over, falling unbalanced from overgrowth</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Be sustenance, feed my mind</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Pollinate my every thought</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Propagate my offspring - respect</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Support and kindness to all you come across</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When all the work, care and nurturing</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Become too much to maintain</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">With trimming shears, remove what needs to</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Careful not to cut yourself</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Be constant in your resolve, do not fear </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I will not wither or dry out</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Do not startle, or be confounded to find</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I was never a delicate rose,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">still a cactus bloom</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdxWpf2bRpE7g5F8-ZiLeuztBH57TDqeQlrTx2_qAPZmRrAJ5pak1XZaJbglpSENQmwifV5Xm0Q54iOiDCvkyPlX_9EHTi_0rkg2lYgoRXDSPzOJsHWpKCNVtDeDhi0q8AdplXF0T_nPY/s640/blogger-image-748015892.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdxWpf2bRpE7g5F8-ZiLeuztBH57TDqeQlrTx2_qAPZmRrAJ5pak1XZaJbglpSENQmwifV5Xm0Q54iOiDCvkyPlX_9EHTi_0rkg2lYgoRXDSPzOJsHWpKCNVtDeDhi0q8AdplXF0T_nPY/s640/blogger-image-748015892.jpg"></a></div><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div>Raquel'SOUtLethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04459302426556559936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899127838653685494.post-26584661149799485962015-06-01T21:53:00.001-07:002015-06-01T23:19:25.476-07:00I wish ...<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv8-IRGS9rrwEH0uNmwduLwvb78Lu5jhKXr57mOoGk9A2IVHYCEQm5IdbExNBJoS1ukVFV5nn3ZwoI5_jzim27QMV_R8wgCXrqyeQxoA0vLqjuNcx3Fvqu29VuEdhdoP1UXoe9xmZhYyE/s640/blogger-image-1058081770.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv8-IRGS9rrwEH0uNmwduLwvb78Lu5jhKXr57mOoGk9A2IVHYCEQm5IdbExNBJoS1ukVFV5nn3ZwoI5_jzim27QMV_R8wgCXrqyeQxoA0vLqjuNcx3Fvqu29VuEdhdoP1UXoe9xmZhYyE/s640/blogger-image-1058081770.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> Photo: @rebelesoteric </div><br><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I wish I didn’t care</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> When and if you think of me</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> If you knew the amount of times </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> You cross my mind’s eye</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Would it be foolish of me</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I wish I didn’t care</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Where it is you might be</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Hundreds of miles away</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Perhaps trudging over wet sand</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Maybe holding another’s hand</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I wish I didn’t care</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> To know who that might be</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Do they appreciate what I did</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Are you content, fulfilled, inspired</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Do they take my place </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> as your</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> biggest fan</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I wish I didn’t care</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> What you do with the time</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> once mine</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Do you carve out space in your life</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> For new memories, travel</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Remember the helicopter ride</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I wish I didn’t care</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Why you decided the one wasn’t me</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Though you swore </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> we were meant to be</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Too good to be true, I thought</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Yet still believed</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I wish I didn’t care </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Enough to wish you well</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> And just be</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> C’est la vie</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p>Raquel'SOUtLethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04459302426556559936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899127838653685494.post-57632963470019726092015-04-28T14:26:00.001-07:002015-05-08T22:13:05.123-07:00#ferguson<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlGe1kzViLpCiUfMpZKfAXlEbpaE8SHpd2aY-vJWU9xcY4QKsYQNt0TO8GQUxEpfWH2dlQ06NIoW0bLFalZiHsXmi-G3N2g77oMSzvs-qdnub5Lz3Kolf1J9lxSX2x4MKRcn1Hvo7QD6c/s640/blogger-image--1000624613.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlGe1kzViLpCiUfMpZKfAXlEbpaE8SHpd2aY-vJWU9xcY4QKsYQNt0TO8GQUxEpfWH2dlQ06NIoW0bLFalZiHsXmi-G3N2g77oMSzvs-qdnub5Lz3Kolf1J9lxSX2x4MKRcn1Hvo7QD6c/s640/blogger-image--1000624613.jpg"></a></div><br></div>My heart is heavy<div>My mood somber</div><div>Finding it hard to express</div><div>While my mind wonders</div><div><br></div><div>So much injustice </div><div>In these modern times </div><div>The more things change</div><div>The more they stay the same</div><div><br></div><div>Another brother taken</div><div>Too young, too soon</div><div>A mother, father, grandmother </div><div>A whole community mourns </div><div><br></div><div>Angry words to the already insulted</div><div>Tear gas, though already crying</div><div>Rubber bullets shot at the already wounded</div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Barrickading the already imprisoned</span></div><div><br></div><div>By preconceived notions</div><div>Centuries of hatred and poison </div><div>Treated as second class citizens </div><div>Expected to bow down and take it</div>Raquel'SOUtLethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04459302426556559936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899127838653685494.post-50546730973949578042015-04-09T18:41:00.001-07:002015-04-09T18:49:50.037-07:00So much more...<div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir3WBfXWXse-WgC7dHE-uWtod8HrDrQubCYNBPiPiFX0ehitD5jzMkHSVV13_lqccDWaoW5PIBKW2ZnFzSU3udEdoKiDTfH9a7sRRONV_30l_OwU1sY-j1FuWpqNKCTKKE_MNeg-AwqF8/s640/blogger-image-974409872.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir3WBfXWXse-WgC7dHE-uWtod8HrDrQubCYNBPiPiFX0ehitD5jzMkHSVV13_lqccDWaoW5PIBKW2ZnFzSU3udEdoKiDTfH9a7sRRONV_30l_OwU1sY-j1FuWpqNKCTKKE_MNeg-AwqF8/s640/blogger-image-974409872.jpg"></a></div><br></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I'm so much more than tits,</span><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So much more than thighs.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Still you tried to trick me,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">To let you come inside.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Down played perceived imperfections,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Falsified affection.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Played the part to a tee,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Trying to claim your stake on me.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Painted a pretty picture,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Conjured up a nice story.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Weaseled your way into my head,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">With hopes of getting a little head.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">No longer the girl you used to know,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Falling for pretty, smooth talking romeos.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Into a woman I've grown,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hustling & getting my own.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I'm so much more than what you see,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So much more than a pretty face & curved lines.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Still you tried to step,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Come at me with the same tired line.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Pretty things may be appealing,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Don't even get me started on shoes.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But even I know it's time to let go,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When the souls have worn through.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There's so much more to me,<br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So much more than you will ever see.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">See this? Me drawing the line,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Protecting my heart, dignity & mind.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I'm so much more than a silly crush,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Worth so much more than infatuation.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bigger than what you fed, a fantasy.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Don't believe me? Just look at my reality.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I'm so much more, so let by gones be.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Immaturity & insecurities did you a favor.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I'm just getting started, yet</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Already more than you're equipped to handle.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Whatever it wasn't, let it be - Absolved.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You once </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">said I'm the smartest </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Woman you've known,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">How do you like your knowledge served?</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Photo Edit: Sonia Rebeles </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">In the night's summer breeze </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Intoxicating, addicting like </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Honeysuckle to a bee</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Grounding,</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Relaxing Lavender</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Exotic jasmine infused oil,</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Luxurious roses, hyacinths</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Welcoming spring</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Frankincense, </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">myrrh</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Venerable, h</span>eavenly blessing</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Cleansing, </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Purifying burning sage</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">None compare to his</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Pheromones</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Exiting, enticing to me</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Stimulate ol factory</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Elicit ancient memories of my</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Nubian King</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWJh_Dj651Uij_OPg1mj3ltMisNGxJip7BQbxS-BW4995PXISs9q1u6Cdw03hO-Eq75h2WCp8Jz2l4FugRsDNJK9OWSj8opqpIfRho13NyPTyQUwHc3XgaUtdsOL0jwp9X1Tl_zuKlQ8g/s640/blogger-image-127636836.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWJh_Dj651Uij_OPg1mj3ltMisNGxJip7BQbxS-BW4995PXISs9q1u6Cdw03hO-Eq75h2WCp8Jz2l4FugRsDNJK9OWSj8opqpIfRho13NyPTyQUwHc3XgaUtdsOL0jwp9X1Tl_zuKlQ8g/s640/blogger-image-127636836.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div>Raquel'SOUtLethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04459302426556559936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899127838653685494.post-23048656824625956482015-03-12T13:10:00.001-07:002015-03-12T13:10:53.268-07:00My Child, My Sweet<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk8GvR3YP4QQMdZfWexRSGBUFpVYRX0ehGynvGDg8Fy8uFuWKsZ5zENdkGzCiGXb77MAcrj6T0Obq9nG0i8Yu1THxUjm4zWGYQLkc44VV3zC4-Slg7T5m2HSLcte_W1i-lPtUREU91UCY/s640/blogger-image-1859990786.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk8GvR3YP4QQMdZfWexRSGBUFpVYRX0ehGynvGDg8Fy8uFuWKsZ5zENdkGzCiGXb77MAcrj6T0Obq9nG0i8Yu1THxUjm4zWGYQLkc44VV3zC4-Slg7T5m2HSLcte_W1i-lPtUREU91UCY/s640/blogger-image-1859990786.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div><br></div><div>My child, my sweet</div>How I've waited so,<div>Impatiently to see you,</div><div>To hold you, to meet you</div><div><br></div><div>Carried you in my womb </div><div>Kept you safe and warm</div><div>Fed you, read to you</div><div>'Til you were ready, full term</div><div><br></div><div>Yet on that day, of your birth</div><div>The same person I was no more</div><div>With your first breath, with your first cry</div><div>It was you who gave me life. </div>Raquel'SOUtLethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04459302426556559936noreply@blogger.com0