Happily Ever After All
If you woke up tomorrow
And found your heart on a scale
Would it be lighter than a feather
Or
Heavier than a stone?
Sometimes babies walk into walls
Cause they aren’t familiar with
The properties of physicality;
Sometimes elders talk to
Those who have passed on.
What if today
Was the last one,
Forever.
Once, when I was a queen,
I looked down
And felt above
So God sent me to purgatory
And opened the gates
One to Heaven
And one to Hell…
As I took the
3-day ride to salvation
My humility
Made me an empress
I’ve lost everything…
My sanity
Vanity
Sense of security
Ideology
And most of all
My vision of truth
But once I was empty…
I became full filled…
I have seen the stars;
Spoken to angels
Demons
Saints and sinners,
I lost in order to know,
What found looks like…
I’ve been hungry,
Sick
Alone
Lonely…
I have cried tears.
I have bled blood.
I have been violated
And betrayed.
I’ve been the only one left.
The only one not standing.
The only one refusing to sit down.
I have been loved.
Loved hard and loved deep.
Rescued from despair
Lifted from death by unseen hands;
Certain death has never made up its mind
About me.
At least, not yet.
I’ve been to the top
Spoken to the few
And their message to you
Passed through me
There’s nothing up there
Stop climbing and
Spread your wings
I’ve been to the bottom
And spoken to the masses
They have a message for you too
Stop letting yourself be kicked
The bottom is bottomless
Don’t wait to hit the floor
Before you get back up
Every caterpillar wants to be a butterfly
But butterflies come from struggle
Only sinners want to go to heaven
Saints are already there
You can’t lead
If you can’t serve cause
A true leader is a servant of the people
God with a capital
Can’t live or die
Cause one can’t be done
Without the other
Any man who claims to be God
Is a liar
And liars can’t be the truth
So save yourself
Time is irrelevant
If you don’t care
Take time
If you don’t
You’ll never have enough
My life is a fairytale
I just haven’t gotten
To the happily ever after part yet
My Prince comes
But he drives an Altima
Instead of a white horse
Technicalities
Gentleman,
I implore you
Go out
Find you damsel
Your princess
Your beauty
Save her from peril
And give her ever after
With you
Ladies,
Be patient
If the brotha is running
A little late
Love is always the answer
Many more will die
Before the end
Are you prepared for eternity?
Do you have a survival kit?
Have you chosen a side?
You had better decide because
The angels don’t like you
They’re just doing their job
Won’t nobody save you
When you’re against all odds
Even if you didn’t know
It was the end of days
What makes you think
You won’t live to see it
How did you get to be so special
That the world can’t end
With you in it
What have you done to stop it
Do you even care
What if the lost generation
Is the last generation
No name
No history
No future
No hypothesis
Just lost
No search party
Lighthouse
Search light
Fog horn or
Breadcrumbs in sight
Just war and
Poverty
Natural disasters and
Climate instability
Genocide
And bio-engineers
What if you’re a clone
And don’t know it
Would there be a place for you
In Heaven
Or in Hell
How could you tell
Would you have a soul to sell
A penny for your thoughts
How much for your heart
What if tomorrow
Is judgment day
What would you say
To save yourself
Would you be a witness
For someone else’s soul
Who could you call to testify
On your own behalf
Would your momma love you
If you were her neighbor
Rather than her child
Whose burden are you
What good are you anyway
What color is your soul
How clean is your karma
What’s left to come back around
Are you afraid to die?
Have you ever really lived
Happily
After all
by Empress Nzingha
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