Tanae`sha Lashaye-My Daughters Poetry

 

Why

I dont know why the sky is blue, or even why the grass is green

Makes me wonder is this more than what it seems

I dont know why summer starts in June

Or why winter comes too soon

Even makes me wonder at night why is it only half of the moon

So tell me why do people fall in love

And let their heart sore above

Leaving it vulnerable and open

So that without knowing, it could be easily broken

Makes me wonder why it is so easy to fall in love

But so hard to restore your heart after being broken

***These two are dedicated to Michael Jackson :)  Even the one above has a few of Mikes lines if you can recognize his words...***

Now I Realize

I know at first I seen you as such a bad person

Because thats the picture people painted in my head

So before you left I never really knew you and I never really cared

I just went by what people said

And now that you are gone

I realize your greatness

I realize your perfection

I realize your innocence

I realize your shyness

I realize that you cared for others

I realize that you had a heart

And I realize that deep down inside you were hurting

You were hurting because they made you seem as such a bad person

They made you paranoid about the way you looked

They took your pride

They took your childhood

And your manhood

They took away the ability for you to sleep at night

They made you into a person you were not

And someone you could never become

And at the end they were never happy

You told them to leave you alone

But they never listened

And now I realize how sweet of a person you were

Hopefully now they will leave you alone

You've Shown Me

You've shown me how to not be so selfish

You've shown me that the world needs healing

You've shown me how to love outside of myself

You've shown me that prejudice is ignorance

You've shown me that they dont really care about us

You've shown me that you should never come second to none

You've shown me that sharing is the key to life

You've shown me how to respect someone even if you dont like them

You've shown me how to be a lover not a fighter

You've shown me that not everyone is what they seem

You've shown me that through everything your are not alone

You've shown me all this

Through your music, your walk and your talk

You've shown me alot and we never personally met

By Tanaesha Leak