Quotes that helped me and keep me going.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.
– Saint Thomas Aquinas

As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
– Proverbs 23:7

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared with what lies within us.
– Oliver Wendall Holmes

“Analyze thy life’s experiences,

see thy shortcomings, see thy virtues.

Minimize those faults, magnify and glorify thy virtues.”

–Edgar Cayce

“Don’t dwell on what went wrong.

Instead, focus on what to do next.

Spend your energies on moving forward

toward finding the answer.”

-Denis Waitley

I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

-Thomas Edison

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career.

I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times,

I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed.

I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life.

And that is why I succeed.

-Michael Jordan

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

– Lao Tzu

Dear lord

Dear God,

I’d first off like to thank you for my life and all you have created.

I have found one of your angels and beloved daughters.

I love her Lord. I thank you for your blessings and for your most perfect creation.

I promise to keep her happy.

Lord i ask you to keep her safe when i cannot.

Protect her in her dealings father and fill her soul with your love and presence.

I thank you for allowing us to be ready for love by the time we met.

Thank you because with out her i’d be lost.

Bless everyone in our life and everyone we run into.

Forgive me father for i am a man and makes mistakes.

Watch over her and guide her through life

Lord shower her oppourtunities and love

If its to be, please guide me back to her and her to me

If its not to be please give her strength, wisdom, love and an open to heart to accept it all.

I humbly thank you.

Wake up, wake up and see

Who’s wearing the most valuable dress?

Who’s betting the most and who is from “that family, and who looks the best,

Celebrating traditions we have long lost,

Hobbies have gone from photography to shopping,

Consumerism and extortion seems to be the norm, and nobody’s stopping,

Because nobody cares, just as long as they still get to wear their designer uniforms,

Worn by those who paid not knowing where their clothes were made.

The poor that stitch the latest trends are souls torn between eating or not,

Not deciding what to wear or will it make them  look good or not?

WAKE UP

Wake up and see,

The issues in society not what’s on TV,

Nightmares in the ghetto like babies born yellow with crack in their systems,

A mothers 37 hour labour, baby barely breathing,

She passes away without seeing her baby’s face,

All because she was badly beating, physically and mentally,

So the farther gets off scot free,

And when you try and get this message played on the stereo,

It gets banned from being played,

We’d rather hear about the party, the girls and the boys,

Who attract the girls with cars, money and dumb toys,

That they can’t take into the next life,

Little girls think twice,

And guys have more respect for women,

This isn’t just an isolated incident, this can actually happen,

Imagine a man treating your sister like this,

Worse off, your daughter like this, this could be your little girl one day

WAKE UP, open your eyes

Questions

who are we?

where are we?

are we fake friends or real enemies?

are you being you or have you changed for a gain?

why did you make me wild only to be tamed?

being alone is sickening…..sometimes i want to kick it!

FORGET LOVE!! but i know how badly i want it,

with her, only with HER…

I’ve learnt that sometimes some people aren’t ment to be,

so i ask him, “are we ment to be”?

I’m ment to be strong, I’m his eldest son,

so does it make me weak because i ask so many questions?

my life was hard and too long,

but change was inevitable and it didn’t take too long.

I was born hard but sensitive, that side allows the man inside me to cry

I want to love and care for you, i don’t care what the haters say,

my past has been full of pain, experience and turbulence,

I’ve grown up and seen the light, my old life i dropped it!

but remember my hearts fragile so look after it,

if you kiss me now there’s no going back after it!

my  soul and life is here if you want it,

please don’t promise if you can’t keep it!

why is my path so undefined?

What to do? Where to go,

I will never stop loving you!

will she come with me?    only God knows!

ACW

Inside him

My pain travels through my veins like sky paths and plains

i catch good times with the ease of a breath from a new-born baby

let me travel through galaxies and pick up the needy like a taxi

but don’t judge me if I run out of fuel coz nothing lasts forever, beside the love i have for you

i look down at you while you look up at me

it’s that way because I’m tall and your tiny

gaze deep into your eyes, lose myself and your touch brings me back

this is more than life itself but I feel I don’t deserve you and i can still feel my shame

the window pane that i stand behind, hides the true pain

Fill my belly with knowledge and humility

to know when I’m wrong and take that with complete dignity

i no longer blame others for what my actions did to me.

If only

I want to live to see Africa unite and rise, to live to see black people live along side each other with love and prosperity. I want to live to see the poor become rich so that they dont have to suffer no longer, to see mankind giving back to the earth. To see governments stop raping its people for power. I want allot but give thanks for allot more. I just hope we have evolved by the time i’m dead and gone and a better world stand in its place.

But who knows what the future holds. So i’ll cry if i need to, let the pressure out and use my anger and frustrations productively