third
eye
spending her earnings
on clothes, shoes, nails and hair
never investing in books
to educate what’s up there
on luck she’s living
day to day
not once getting on
her knees to pray
disregarding the fact
that her heart should be following the Lord
young girl gotta wake
up one day cause sanity won’t last when you live by the sword.
preoccupied with things
that are superficial you see
always trying to change
the outside
never concerned about
her spirituality
always letting them
close her third eye.
sex was just a game
to her
playing russian roulette
with men
never once did it occur
that to fornicate is
to sin
in each encounter with
a man love is what she sought
too bad she did not
wake up in time because H-I-V is what she caught.
consumed with the pleasure
of the flesh
running away from the
pain burning deep inside
all the while leaving
her true emotions a mess
continuing to close
her third eye.
trying to have so much
fun before she met her maker
never once did she consider
that he might not want take her
eventually she realized
that heaven was here on earth
but unfortunately she
did not wake up until she was six feet beneath the dirt
before her death the
young girl did not attempt to cry
because she was absorbed
in the wonder of what she could see with her third eye.
By: mz. Trineka greer
© Copyright May 29, 1997
