RIP Mike-Guest Poet Tanaesha Leak

RIP Mike!  I cant believe its been a year since you left us :(

Good Morning All!  I am posting this in memory of Michael Jackson.  The two poems below my daughter wrote last year about Mike.  I hope that everyone has a safe and blessed weekend!

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 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 and not a fighter

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

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

You've shown me all of this through your music

You've shown me a lot and we never personally met

By Tanaesha Leak