Black Poetry : NOTHING FOR MYSELF, EVERYTHING FOR YOU!

msluciousb

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They asked me on my birthday , just what special thing did I need.
Not a woman of material vision and definitely not of greed.
I want nothing for myself I replied , I want it for my seed.
Nothing for myself, Everything for you...for all the love you
give to me and the cute lil things you do.

My baby is my heart you see, my first grandchild so bright
and filled with promise...stricken with a death sentence
by this Cancer, the true ungodly menace....
So you ask me what can you do for me and I say ...
Nothing for me please, do it for Raven who God is saving.

How do you do it they ask day in day out, don't you ever
cry don't you want to shout!
Yes! From my mountain top, I want the pain and tears to
stop...But I want nothing for me and everything for you!
For all the love you give me and the cute lil things you do.

If I could change places and bare your pain and burdens too...
Nothing for me and everything for you!
I don't need diamonds and pearls or cruises and vacations
around the world.
I want solace and peace and suffering to cease, I want
to erase the furrow in your face that has now become a
crease.

To many days crying and not enough laughter, one day
of peace and solace for my baby, that's what I am after!
Some folks think it makes me special cause it's selfless
they say...But, doesn't every mother/grandmother think
that way?

Nothing for me, and everything for you, there is so much
you have not seen, and so much you want to do.
But instead you lay in bed, racked with pain , shiny bald
head. Squeezing smiles out to please us, and never really
making a fuss. Oh what bravery you show, as I see you
now I know...

NOTHING FOR ME...AND EVERYTHING FOR YOU!
BJS(C)2003
 

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