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"E. Rich" You Can Call Me

"E. Rich" You Can Call Me
Posted By: ericka richardson on May 15, 2006


Lying here listening to the rain
As it draws out all this tension and eases all this pain
But the world still goes round as nature urinates on its soul
And each thought that surfaces has a story untold
Alone...


Alone is what I am, but not because I have too
Alone because I want to be
So that before I focus on you, I can focus on me
And I think you should do the same
Because your critisizing and analysing of my preference pisses me off more than the fact that you don't know my name
No really, I'm not mad at you
I'm mad at your intellegence for letting your ignorance take it over
My preference isn't what allowed my mind to be drunk with knowledge, yet allows yours to be sober
Of why I do what I do
Or why it is so beautiful to me but disgusting to you
You see, your deepest fear is I
Because past the fact that I am who I am, I can tell you who you are better than you can
But my deepest fear is that I am powerful beyond measure
Quoted by Marrianne Williamson
I have the power to be your friend or foe, love you or hate you, keep you or let you go
Kill you with kindness and knowledge, or instead, sit you down and teach you what you need to know
And if you don't mind, let me teach you a little something about me
I am a creative mind as you can see
I tend to make people fall head over heals
But not to love me, just to now me
Because the way I write and layout life comforts a heart so lonely
I am the bosom who feeds the young minded hungry
And the thing that's so funny is this is only the beginning, a rough draft, a foreshadow of what's to come
When all will understand where I am coming from
Like the Buddha of poetry, a true lyricist has risen
Out of the ashes...hell naw
Out of the mind of a child who once hid from life
And walked in shadows afraid of the praise of light
But light is what she needed to open her eyes
While dark played its part of delinquishing her strife
Now I am me, look what I have been molded to be
I stride with confidence and confidence I speak
Ericka Richardson is the name; E. Rich you can call me
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ericka richardson
Fort Valley State University class of 2010
What yall think about this one?

Monday, May 15th 2006 at 3:33PM
OMG, Damn, That was very thought provoking, poetically sound and just outright DEEP. The first part had me me in self reflection like, "I don't do that? Do I? LOL Then as you went on, I got to see into your soul. In the end, I just sat back and enjoyed your prose. Broderick said it: "you got a TRUE gift for writting."
Damon
Saturday, June 17th 2006 at 8:43AM
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