"There's Nothing More Unnatural Than A Mother Having To Bury Her Child..."

I've always been a fan of strong slamming. Poetry forces us to pay attention to what they are saying, even if the meaning is different for each of us. This piece touched me so much because I am from this city, I have heard these stories, I have seen others walking this path trying to get an understanding of all the destruction around them. Youth killing is a raging epidemic in the City of Wind, and more than anything it effects the lives of the youth left behind to mourn and make sense of a truth of life that they should have even been exposed to so early on in their years: that death comes where and when it wants and no one is invincible or strong enough to stop it.
This piece reminds me of where I come from, makes me grateful for where I am now, and makes me look forward to the future, more determined never to take a step back. I was lucky, I made it out of where the youth drop like flies.

What is Love? Baby Don't Hurt Me....

"Human beings have been trying for centuries, and we still have failed to rationalize or understand love. It’s never served us to set our hearts and minds up for battle against each other. By always trying to intellectualize love instead of just feeling it, we have built all this hype and pressure around one of the sweetest human actions: saying what you’re doing anyway. You are loving. There’s no need to feed your fears."