Letting Go

YOU LIVE AND YOU LEARN

By Deneja Atkins

I had learned to accept,

You were just the annoying gum I stepped on years ago at bottom of my soles.

In my life, you served as a defect.

A fresh white smile and neatly shaved beard at first had me perplexed.

All along you were a wolf in sheep’s clothing, so cold.

I had learned to accept.

I allowed your foolish lies and my insecurities to perfectly intersect.

I had every reason to diverge and take control.

In my life, you served as a defect.

So many years of disrespect.

Staying mute and playing my role,

I had learned to accept.

It’s time that my common sense takes effect.

Our unhealthy relationship was eating at my soul.

In my life, you served as a defect.

After reviewing our retrospect,

I could never grow with someone like you who impedes me from reaching goals.

I had learned to accept,

In my life, you served as a defect.

GOODBYE, MY PRECIOUS BABY

By Deneja Atkins

Goodbye, my precious baby.

You will never be forgotten.

I could only imagine what your days here on earth be.

I wish I could have seen you grow into a fine lady.

I guess the universe saved you from a world that is very much rotten.

Goodbye, my precious baby.

Oh, I would have had you dressed to the tea baby!

And like me and take no mess and told them to “Pick your own cotton”!

I could only imagine what your days here on earth be.

I would have had you reading books written by people who look like you and me.

You would have been that student in school that had teachers’ stomachs knotting.

Goodbye, my precious baby.

Carrying you for nine months was for certain, while birthing you was less than a maybe.

The love for people like you and me in the world is uncommon.

I could only imagine what your days here on earth be.

Although, the man who helped me create you hurt we.

You would have kept me on my feet, trotting.

Goodbye, my precious baby.

You will never be forgotten.