Purpose

Life isn't about finding yourself, it's about defining yourself.

Anger

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Aristotle

Definitions

Insecurity: an inability to identify or a distrust in one's ability to identify love.

Physical Love: the body's chemical reaction to the physical manifestation of one's desires and fears in another person.

Desire: a longing for experience

More spoken word

Black Privilege by Crystal Valentine

My Genesis by Danni Green

Play by Saidu Tejan Thomas

Spoken Word

The power of words combined with the drama of showmanship. Check these out:

To the guys that may one day date my daughter - Jesse Parent

Dark  - Jon Goode

Joey - Neil Hilborn

I won't write your obituary Nora Cooper

For more offerings, check out Button Poetry on YouTube.

40

Four decades I've lived upon this rock                             
                                                                         suspended in space and time.

Four joys and four sorrows, I was granted 
                                                      for enlightenment, for growth, for appreciation, for comprehension. 

For the express pleasure of being able to say, on this day, that I am blessed beyond words and thankful beyond measure.

Thankful

I have the use of both eyes and ears, arms and legs and all twenty digits. I am not so hardened that I can no longer love. I am not so blinded that I can no longer trust. I am not so jaded that I can no longer forgive. I am not so brainwashed that I can no longer believe. I falter. I bleed. I survive. Occasionally, I thrive. Every day, I am thankful.