Open your eyes
What do you see
Your beautiful soul
Or all that is ugly
Does it hurt you
Does it disturb you
Does it trouble you
Can you change it
If there is nothing you can do
Then ignore it
Or maybe you can pray
Maybe you can tell
Maybe you can write
Maybe you can rebel
Maybe you can say, “NO.”
Why because you care
You can see it’s wrong
This is what you can do
Tell someone
Tell someone else
Tell everyone you can
Keep telling
Write a book about it
Write a blog about it
Found a foundation to stop it
There is always something
You can do
Even when you choose
To do nothing.
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Two Brothers by Coletha Albert
This story evolves from being primarily about envy between brothers into a story about healing trauma, releasing resentment, and accepting the imperfection of those we love. In that sense, it actually moves beyond the central theme of Pope’s An Essay on Criticism and enters the territory of spiritual reconciliation. It is an encouragement to accept…
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Call On Jesus by Nicole C. Mullen
Dear Sister Nicole, Your music ministry has been a light to my path in drawing near to Jesus for a very long time. I remember going to George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston for workshops and other positive event and hearing your music being played over the public announcement system. I faced so many…
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17 by Coletha Albert
Seventeen years is a long time to keep a desert between yourself and the ghosts of your past. In all that time, I never set foot near the people who bore me, the soil that chained me. But the air of the airport terminal was thin during my layover, and something—a quiet, insistent pull—whispered that…
“With all you put me through, I keep living because you still don’t know how to.”
Coletha Yvette Albert
Sidebar: Barack Obama wants us to help Hawaii right now – this is my response:
Black Americans work hard for NOTHING except more stress. Yet you still want more? Hell. NAW. This was all about you and excluding us – so keep it that way. Remember Hawaii wanted no part of the USA especially BLACKs – remember? I sure as hell do. I need some help myself, what y’all gonna do? NOTHING. You can’t get money out of an account that is perpetually empty. You can’t get blood from a turnip. So get off my internet begging. I have nothing for you today. You didn’t plant anything good in me for me so you have nothing to harvest. – Subscribe to my YouTube! https://youtube.com/@MsColetha
