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Recorded Reading (2:13): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/knf14kqx2e083ggektx68/To-All-Ourselves.mp3?rlkey=mcrx5t8q94nsdeg4weogc9ji4&dl=0

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To All Ourselves

Sister self, you sit back down
I got somethin’ here to say
Not enough smile, too many frown
Don’ like to see you go that way

Why do you always feel you might be
Some kind of unworthy of
The sweetest kind of treasuring,
The most passionate love?

You think that you’ve done something worse
Than all these women goin’ by?
Honey, that’s a good one
I’d just like to see you try!

Girl in that corner? She’s a witch
Feeds her lovers’ mis’ry of
Girl in that one? She’s a bitch
Who walks all over love

The one behind you is the kind
Who slips her mama poisoned milk ~
Alarmingly, the bar behind
Is of similar ilk

Have you noticed it’s not the girls
Dressed up in the latest style
That love-starved young men swarm to,
But she with the warmest smile

The kindest disposition,
The most forgivingness
Of all the misdirection
A man’s life gen’rous bless?

You’ve got all you need to have
Now you’ve just got to let ’em know
It isn’t to just anybody
This queen’s smiles and flowers go

Only the most genuine
And unconditional
Consistency devotion of
Which she deserves so well!

And if that dream might take
A little time in coming true
That’s reflection of their lack
And none at all on you

Just make sure every minute which
Beneath your stepping slippers go
That you to deepest self are true
And leave the rest to God to know

For when those slippers come at last
As you know they will
From prancing up life’s pathway
To mostly staying still

There’s just one person you’ll have then
Left to answer to
Irreplaceable, wonderful
Welcoming, forgiving You

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This poet presently lives at a fraction of her nation’s poverty level.

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