Face of a Goddess; Too Bright Without Shades

She feared nothing, taking a final deep breath.

And.

She.

Soared.

Unequipped then, unequipped now.

Turn the light off.

Love don’t live here anymore.

Jazmine Sullivan Performs ‘Lost Ones’ & ‘Pick Up Your Feelings’ | Soul T...

When your past meets your present.

"Pick Up Your Feelings"

You say that I've been actin' different, yeah
Funny how I finally flipped the script on you
When you the one who's double-dippin', yeah
You so sloppy, how I caught you slippin' up
You're off the lease, run me my keys
No more poppin' up to hit it, yeah
I ain't even got the miles to trip on you

New phone (Who is this?)
Brand new, like the whip
Rack it up, no assist
Main bitch I ain't average
Wake up, need a zip
Hennessy take a sip
I got my jeans, I'm too thick
I ain't got the room for extra baggage

Don't forget to come and pick up your, ooh, feelings
Don't leave no pieces (Oh, oh)
You need to hurry and pick up your, ooh, ooh, feelings
While I'm up cleaning

Boy please, I don't need it (I don't need it)
Memories, all that shit, you can keep it (Oh, oh)
Don't forget to come and pick up your, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, feelings
Don't leave no pieces (Oh)

Oh, I'm tryna find a fuck to give for you
You ran out of chances of forgivin', yeah
Yeah, listen, I ain't listenin'
Just for you to go and break my heart again
I learned my lesson (Last time)
Woah, and I ain't comin' (Back now)
This is what you had now (Had now)
And I bet you I look better, don't I?

New phone, who is this?
Contact? Don't exist
Need a ride? Call that bitch
Gas way too expensive
No more, benefits
Pop-up visits
Hands tied, no grip
I ain't got the room for extra baggage

So don't forget to come and pick up your, ooh, feelings
And don't leave no pieces (Hey, ayy)
You need to hurry and pick up your, ooh, ooh (Pick up your), feelings
While I'm up cleaning (Oh, oh)

Boy please, I don't need you
Oh, oh, memories, all that shit, you can keep it (Oh, oh)
Don't forget to come and pick up your, oh feelings
Don't leave no pieces (Oh)

Put a lock on the door where my heart once was, hmm
Boy you had your fun
But I had enough
Now I'm really done
I deserve so much more than you gave to me
So now I'm savin' me
And I made my peace
So you can run them streets

Don't forget to come and pick up your, ooh, feelings
And don't leave no pieces (Don't leave no)
You need to hurry and pick up your, ooh, ooh, feelings
While I'm up cleaning

Boy please (Boy please, oh, oh, oh), I don't need you (I don't need you)
All that shit (All that shit), you can keep it (You can keep it), I don't need it (I don't need it)
Don't forget (Don't forget) to come and pick up your, oh feelings (Oh pick up your feelings)
Don't leave no pieces
Oh, oh, oh woah

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh

Happy Fifty-Fine To Me ♾🖤♾

I literally have no words.

I am the happiest girl in the whole wide world!

 This is one of the happiest birthdays, ever.

Wishes come true ❤️.

I Don’t Need You

She is the calm summer breeze
Above it all
Secure in her stature
Beyond the norm

Rarely demanding
Knowing where she stands
Her grace
Is an art form

iAm all seasons
Chaotic yet composed
iAm before and after
Ice-, hail-, wind-
Rain

Storm

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She is sugar and spice
And everything nice
Her every wish is your command

iAm fire and ice
Coquettish, rarely playing nice
Independent
A firebrand

iAm on my own
I walk alone
And that way I walk far
To forget me is a torment
The resist is torture
Because casual smokers
Crave a Cuban cigar

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I shoot for the moon
I’m everything for everyone
My cup runneth under
And no one lends a helping hand

There’s no return on their
Investment
My request deemed as demand

Or just because the benefit would only be mine
And I hear that all the time
But
She is connected and belonged full time
iAm on my own
I am my own paradigm

And still
I stand
The opposite of the norm
iAm the tattooed beauty
Warm, misty, serene
iAm the Storm

This is 49.

Happy Birthday To Me.

2019

I wasn't so sure I'd make it...here's to living the life I was meant to live.

This One.

"Midnight Train To Georgia"

L.A. proved too much for the man
(Too much for the man, he couldn't make it)
So he's leaving a life he's come to know, ooh
(He said he's going)
He said he's going back to find
(Going back to find)
Ooh, what's left of his world
The world he left behind not so long ago

He's leaving
(Leaving)
On that midnight train to Georgia, yeah
(Leaving on the midnight train)
Said he's going back
(Going back to find)
To a simpler place and time, oh yes he is
(Whenever he takes that ride, guess who's gonna be right by his side)
I'll be with him
(I know you will)
On that midnight train to Georgia
(Leaving on a midnight train to Georgia, woo woo)
I'd rather live in his world
(Live in his world)
Than live without him in mine
(Her world is his, his and hers alone)

He kept dreaming
(Dreaming)
Ooh, that some day he'd be a star
(A superstar, but he didn't get far)
But he sure found out the hard way
That dreams don't always come true, oh no, uh uh
(Dreams don't always come true, uh uh, no, uh uh)
So he pawned down his hopes
(Woo, woo, woo-woo)
And even sold his old car
(Woo, woo, woo-woo)
Bought a one way ticket back to the life he once knew
Oh yes he did, he said he would

Oh-oh, he's leaving
(Leaving)
On that midnight train to Georgia, yeah
(Leaving on a midnight train)
Said he's going back to find, ooh
(Going back to find)
A simpler place and time, ooh, yeah
(Whenever he takes that ride, guess who's gonna be right by his side)
I'm gonna be with him
(I know you will)
On that midnight train to Georgia
(Leaving on a midnight train to Georgia, woo woo)
I'd rather live in his world
(Live in his world)
Than live without him in mine
(Her world is his, his and hers alone)

Ooh, he's leaving
(Leaving)
On the midnight train to Georgia, yeah, ooh y'all
(Leaving on the midnight train)
Said he's going back to find
(Going back to find)
Ooh, a simpler place and time, ooh y'all, uh-huh
(Whenever he takes that ride, guess who's gonna be right by his side)
I've got to be with him
(I know you will)
On that midnight train to Georgia
(Leaving on a midnight train to Georgia, woo woo)
I'd rather live in his world
(Live in his world)
Than live without him in mine
(Her world is his, his and hers alone)

For love, gonna board the midnight train to ride
For love, gonna board, gotta board the midnight train to go
For love, gonna board, uh huh, the midnight train to go
My world, his world, our world, mine and his alone
My world, his world, our world, mine and his alone
I got to go
I got to go
I got to go, hey
I got to go
I got to go
My world, his world, my man, his girl
I got to go
I got to go, oh
I got to go
My world, his world, our world, his girl

Still Standing.

I didn’t know what this health scare would do to me but here I am, uniquely bent; I don’t break and utterly hormonal.

Learning this temporary new normal.

The part of me that defined womanhood; the part where I believed in feminine energy and love was ripped away, in so many ways, on two separate days and I had no choice.
It doesn’t matter.

I am brave with my life and I am unafraid to fail.
Believing in that love was a fail.
I didn’t know what to expect and the real complications that have since appeared reiterate why it’s difficult to deal with mental, physical and financial issues, in solitude.

But, I’m good.
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No. I’m not.
I’m not good, but I want to be...

Because that’s who I am and I put on a brave face when it hurts so bad that I can’t breathe and I can’t see anyone for millennia.

And I don’t want to see you for millennia.
Or the thereafter.

Because that too, was a lie.

I neither want nor desire any sort of pity or sacrifice, so don’t bother with the nuisance of it all. Keep my love. You need it more than I do.

I just need the physical strength I could always count on that disappeared when you did.
And.
Unlike most others; I do have time.