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Remember when you didn't think you were the shit

When someone made you believe you didn't have the juice

PPSSSHH,

BIIIHHHH!!!

Your cup runneth over

In case you forgot

You that chick

That most will resent

Some will regret

But no one will forget

You don't need no one else’s permission to shine

To overcast the shade that others may try to throw your way

You keep your shoulder clean

Um, excuse me

Do you know who you are an ascendant of?

Greatness and magic runs in your veins

Mediocrity is a language only spoken of your colonizer

We don't speak their language

You are different breed, cut from a different cloth

Sewn together of resilience and sacrifices

In case you forgot

You still here

Which means you are stronger

Than whatever has tried to kill you

No matter how you got here

The road you took

The nights you spent crying

Or dying

Just to wake up in a hospital the next morning

Alive

You alive

Or

you still got more living to do

More stories to tell

More poems to write

And plus,

It's sooo much bigger than

You.

Jourdan

You have to teach her

To guide her

To show her the way

Because no one else will

Don't let this world consume her

The way it has tried to swallow you

Whole

Girl you whole

You unpacking your broken

Puttin it neatly in

The closet of your life

This wardrobe of yours

That you choose to wear

However the hell you choose to wear it

You always stay fly

Like you don't let the shit on the ground touch you

Or you try not to

In case you forgot

You don't have to write this

This doesn't have to end up in a book somewhere

To prove that you all for yourself

But here we are

Declaring our alive

And here

Until we are no longer

Here

And Alive

To declare it no more