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Tokimonsta – “I’m Waiting”

See I’m waiting.

Waiting for your footsteps to walk on my soul.

Waiting for your hands to take a hold of my heart.

Waiting for me to lose my breath, waiting for you.

Waiting for you to disappear into the darkness where I swear I found you.

I waited for you to come to light.

Waited for you to become light.

Instead you turned into dust at my feet.

Tried to grab your finger tips before all of you left me.

I collapsed and waited till I couldn’t breath.

I woke up to find it was all a dream and I no longer had to wait for you to appear, you were waiting inside of me.

-Words by Imani Smith

 

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Oh yeah…it feels like.

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I’ve discovered love and it feels like what I’ve always imagined it to.

It feels like that one time you learned to ride a bike, it was hard, shit got shaky, you fell over a few times but in the end you were rolling down the street with “I’m a boss” written all over your face.

It feels like that one time you stepped into your favorite restaurant and you were seated right away and the food was so good you went home and fell asleep.

It feels like that one time you found twenty dollars on the ground right after checking your bank account and realizing your broke as hell.

It feels like that one time in December you woke up and looked out the window and realized there was no snow on the ground, and it was 50 degrees.

It feels like that one time you washed all your clothes the night before and was invited to a party and you didn’t have to worry about digging around the dirty shit.

It feels like that one time you were hungry and you called your mom up and she said she just fried some chicken and made a whole five course meal.

It feels like that one time you fell down in preschool but learned that you will fall many more times in life, but the point is to always get back up.

It feels like that one time you sat in class and knew you would ace the test because you studied all night.

It feels like that one time you were able to go on vacation when you wanted to.

It feels like that one time you danced with the moon and received affirmations that shit was going to be okay.

It feels like that one time you never thought you would find love because love is hard to find.

It feels like that one time….

-Imani Smith

Expression/Poetry, Inspiration

F R E E D O M.

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You wait many days for freedom to grace your presence.

You wait for the knock at your soul.

You wait for the stars to align, you wait until the days grow cold.

What do you do until freedom knocks at your soul?

You hold on to your soul, hold it close.

You try to live in a world full of false freedom fighters.

Your mind full of clutter, your memory full of past.

Freedom is your only escape.

What is freedom to a woman living in a prison world?

How does she yarn for something she’s never tasted. But she can’t wait for freedom to rest in her soul.

Imagination is her occupation, dreaming of those days were her body is not subjected to judgement, were she can be free to be who she has always imagined a FREE woman.

Remaining patient until freedom knocks at her soul.

Freedom lingers above her crown, she goes to reach her fingertips just to find she has no grip on FREEDOM.

She closes her eyes to escape, looks for freedom that way, she tries to call her soul to the string of light.

Visually she spots freedom and freedom never looked so damn good!

She opens her eye to realize that the thing called freedom is SHE! The goodness she always waited to be.

She looked deep inside her soul and grabbed the light, previously she waited for freedom to come to her but freedom she found by searching and understanding.

Freedom ain’t free, freedom no one else provides! FREEDOM IS SHE!

-Imani Smith

Be Free, Expression/Poetry, Inspiration

15 ways to stay above waters.

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How do you stay on track in the crazed world of the 21st Century? This is a question that can be answered by many people with tons of different views.

Yes we all feel the radiation of today – meaning we all feel the thick energy in today’s air that can creep up and attack at any second and before we know it we’re off track and trying to regain balance.

So I wanted to post some ways I try to stay on track and out the loop of craziness. 

  1. Realize there is no one superior over you, your actions or your thoughts.
  2. Find ways to stay above waters, learn to swim just in cause you start sinking.
  3. Find your mission in life rather it’s in a craft (medium of art) or simply going around picking up and beautifying the community.
  4. Realize who you are and what you want to stand for and stand by it as an individual.
  5. Have morals – this is really important because with no morals no one will respect you or anything you stand for because you’ll  easily stand for anything.
  6. Respect yourself in all ways!
  7. Don’t believe the hype – the she say – he say! Don’t ever want to fit in with a crowd just because their is a crowd gathered. I’m saying this because people at all ages can forget this very thought.
  8. Don’t spend to much time listening and watching what others have to say (negative) rather it’s in media, social networking or your peers.
  9. Ditch the two plus social networks you have that aren’t beneficial to your life (career) or progression.
  10. Find your inner beauty and love yourself with all you have, you can’t fail with this. If you love and respect your inner and outer no one will ever be able to belittle you.
  11. Do meditation and/or yoga two plus times a week to keep balanced and stress free. This will also benefit you when it comes to balancing your thoughts and actions. Meditation and yoga gives you deep reasoning behind your actions and spirituality.
  12. Learn that karma is real so what you put out you will get back.
  13. Do daily research and keep up to date on politics, rights of the people, women rights, media issues and whatever else needs attention so that you can be able to speak on wide categories.
  14.  Let go of the thought of ever being 100% perfect or anywhere near it, bring in the thought of being able to be the best you can be in your current and future situations.
  15. Be adventurous, be courageous, be spontaneous, fearless, revolutionary, and so much more! Never give up and keep swimming!

–Imani Smith

Expression/Poetry

“A love that must be forgotten.”

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Have you ever met someone for the first time and felt like you met them a million times before.

It felt like a dream that you didn’t want to wake from. It felt like you wanted to bathe in the moment forever but you knew you couldn’t.

I met someone like that, he was the greatest and (quickest)feeling I had ever known. Just writing this gives me chills.

It was so pure, it felt like it was magic. Maybe it was just me though. Magic don’t come your way everyday, so you can understand why I’ve held on to such a feeling like this one.

But…I can’t touch you because you’re so far away, I can’t breath your air because you aren’t close and it feels like my heart is ripping from my chest every time I think of the moments we shared.

I know you don’t feel the same because if you did, you would tell me.

I know that your mind is occupied, but so is mine and you still find your way into my thoughts creating a pattern in the dark.

It was such a sad moment to watch you walk away leaving me here with this feeling, it made me feel hopelessly in love with a stranger.

I am here to be honest because I must be in order to heal myself of this deep rooted feeling. It doesn’t work though because even when I’m honest I still feel myself feeling you.

It’s weird how this all is, it’s weird how you find your soulmate and in two seconds they’re gone like the wind that brushes across your face on a windy day.

I can’t stop this feeling and every since you I’ve tried to find it within myself because I figured if I could love anyone as much as I felt for you I would be okay.

When I decide to tell you how I feel I just run away because I can’t face the fact that you slipped away, never to be returned again. Never to let me feel your skin on mine, never to let my heart beat float into yours, never to see your eyes again.

Your brown skin is what I dream of most, your skin is such a melanated masterpiece I just can’t erase out of my memory. What the fuck has gotten into me, I ask myself this daily.

I ask myself am I living in an illusion that has me thinking that this could be love. I doubt you even think of me. Even if you don’t, I do and the suffering I feel from it I can’t describe instead I ride the feeling, I hide the feeling because it’s better that way.

At least I can think clearly once these thoughts are out, at least I can say I…tried.

I may be insane but I’m honest.

-Imani Smith

Expression/Poetry

The Oceans Lover.

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If love was the ocean, i’d bath in it.

Dropping everything to go take a swim.

Dropping down in the ocean to feel its embrace.

Immersing myself under the currents of its love.

Knowing that the ocean is my lover and I’m the supporter.

I know I am one with this love from the way it sweeps across my soul.

I don’t need any other lover because my lover is an element of the universe.

I am complete, deeply serene.

-Imani Smith

Expression/Poetry

I AM

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I am happy where I am.

I am capable of fulfilling all my desires.

I am understanding of my circumstances.

I am patience with myself.

I am elevating at each moment of my life.

I am stable.

I am Queen of my jungle.

I am a nurturer of my emotions.

I am compassionate.

I am a creative ball of fire.

I am a healer.

I am what I say I am and that’s me.

-IMANI SMITH