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Saying Nothing
Writing
Everything
(Poetry Straight from the Hip)
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Norlita Brown & De’Vray Rogers
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Saying Nothing, Writing Everything
Copyright © 2010 by Brown Essence, Inc.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be
reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any
means without written permission from the author.
ISBN 978-0-9826745-0-5
Printed in USA by 48HrBooks
(www.48HrBooks.com)
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Table of Contents
Preface ........................................................ 7
Introduction ................................................ 8
What I want to say is ................................ 11
Self Destruction ....................................... 12
Poetic Soul ............................................... 13
Smoothly Unspoken ................................. 14
Unblemished Reality ................................ 15
Fearless .................................................... 17
Living ....................................................... 18
An Explanation of Us ............................... 19
Me and You............................................... 22
Envisioning .............................................. 23
Smooth Crest ..............................................25
Unforgettable .............................................26
Knowledge is Key ......................................27
What I Learn is...........................................28
strANGER ..................................................29
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Anger..........................................................30
Itchy Feeling ..............................................31
I Want to Know Why .................................32
Unanswered Questions...............................33
Thank You .................................................34
There is.......................................................35
Different .....................................................36
The Color of Me.........................................37
Reclamation ...............................................38
Why ............................................................39
A World of Emotions .................................40
Crushed ......................................................41
What you never did ....................................42
What I wanted to do ...................................43
Family Troubles .........................................45
Who are you? .............................................46
Can you tell me ..........................................47
A better understanding ...............................48
Granted .......................................................49
Emotional ...................................................50
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Delusional ..................................................51
The Love We Never Made .........................53
Opened .......................................................54
Selfish ........................................................55
Your Eyes...................................................56
Existence ....................................................57
Rain ............................................................58
Burning ......................................................59
What is Life................................................60
Catching Feelings.......................................61
Bottomless..................................................62
Sexual Suicide ............................................63
Thief ...........................................................64
I am not mad ..............................................65
The Invisibility of Me ................................66
Too Dark to Know .....................................67
The Message ..............................................68
Oh Wise One ..............................................69
It’s Generational.........................................70
I want to .....................................................71
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Emotionally Corrupt ..................................72
Thoughts ....................................................73
Thoughts of Yesterday ...............................74
Many Memories .........................................75
Opinionated ................................................76
Epitome ......................................................77
Recognition ................................................78
The Definition of Me .................................79
I’m Through ...............................................80
Painful Love ...............................................81
Confusion ...................................................82
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Preface
De’Vray and I have been blessed with a gift to
write creatively. Our writing is done to speak to our
hearts as well as to the hearts of those who may have
been looking for direction, or just needing
understanding. In many of our writings we have
responded one to the other. There have also been
times when we have written on the same subject
unknowingly and yet so closely that they seemingly
go hand in hand.
It amazes me that De’Vray can speak so
beautifully at such a young age and I will forever be
proud. We had a hilarious moment where we didn’t
tag the writing at the end, and I couldn’t figure out
who wrote the piece. It turned out to be his.
Please enjoy our creativity and let us know what
you think by going to our website brownessence.com.
Or sending us an email
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Introduction
E v e r y o n e h a s s o m e w ay o f v e n t i n g , a
w a y t o l e t t h e i r e m o t i o n s r u n f r e e , f o r
m e a n d h e , o u r v e h i c l e i s w r i t i n g . Y e t i n
o u r w r i t i n g , w e h o p e t h a t y o u f i n d
s o m e t h i n g y o u c a n r e l a t e t o a s w e l l .
S o m e t h i n g t h a t w i l l h e l p y o u h e a l ; m a k e
y o u s m i l e o r e v e n p as s o n t o a l o v e d
o n e . W h a t e v e r t h e c a s e , w h a t e v e r t h e
s i t u a t i o n w e w o u l d l i k e t o i n v i t e y o u i n t o
o u r s p a c e f o r a m o m e n t o r m a y b e f o r
a w h i l e . A n d i f p e r c h a n c e y o u a r e
s o m e o n e w h o h a s e v e r k n o w n m e , m a d e
m e e c s t a t i c o r s a d , b r o k e n m y h e a r t o r
m e n d e d i t , c o m f o r t e d m e o r s u p p o r t e d
m e a n d b e t w e e n t h e s e l i n e s y o u t h i n k i t
w a s y o u o n m y m i n d …c h a n c e s a r e y o u ’ r e
p r o b a b l y r i g h t . M y n a m e i s N o r l i t a
B r o w n , b u t m y w r i t i n g i s P u r e E s s e n c e .
H i s n a m e i s D e ’ V r a y R o g e r s , b u t h i s
w r i t i n g i s i n t e l l e c t u a l l y P r o p h e t i c
P r o p h e s y .
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Self Destruction
What I want to say I don’t
What I need to say I won’t
So instead I say nothing
And write everything
When I want to speak, I shout
I’m angry there’s no doubt
But before I say something
I live to regret...
I’ll say nothing
And write everything
What I shouldn’t feel, I do
What I should feel, I don’t
So before I mix feelings
And hurt yours or mine
Or even someone else’s
I’ll choose to say nothing
And write everything
Hoping you or he, read between the lines
Before my saying nothing
Causes me to self-destruct
- Pure Essence
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Unblemished Reality
When I walk into a room I change the
atmosphere with my words of honesty in the
rarest form. They are made to uplift, bring joy
to ones smile
But they have been known to cut once in
awhile
The words I verbalize say something so
deep
Straight forward so to speak
You know nothing but the truth so help
me, please
I know, you thought I’d use His name in
vain
But that is my point precisely
I choose my words, they don’t choose me
I try to make sure they’re not tainted
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Dimmed with a lie
My words come naturally
Honestly, they are free to be
The rarest form of pure essence
And nothing less
- Pure
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An Explanation of Us
One and one is equivalent
To you and me
So does that make us one
Or just two
Two people wanting each other
Feeling the other
For the day or the morrow
Is this something for the moment
Or the beginning of eternity
Wow! When you say it like that
It seems like a long time.
How about this?
How about we back up
Take one step, no two
Me…then you.
Now let’s try this thing again
Would you like to be friends?
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Or maybe more…
How about we kiss and try this
Did you feel that?
Yeah, I felt it too
I think the earth just moved.
Should we take it a step further?
But what happens if…
You know like I know
The earth shatters in two
We’ll be back to where we started
Me then you.
One, maybe two hearts broken
Needing healing,
Okay STOP!
This is getting too heavy for me
Way too heavy!
Who started this shit anyway?
Was it me or was it you?
My fingers point in your direction,
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While yours put the blame on me
I relent because I realize at this point,
It doesn’t matter
What are we going to do?
What are you going to do?
Push me away and hope the feelings subside?
I can’t think,
I don’t know what I want
And neither do you
It’s all a ball of confusion
Mirroring turmoil
And now we’re done, but
There’s just one more thing
It’s pulling at me, my heart, mind, body and soul
And it won’t let go!
- Pure
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Me and You…..
Are like a car crash
A collision of some sort
When we get together
We mix like oil and vinegar
And with that we explode
Like a nuclear testing site
Into the heavens
And create our separate worlds
Battling for centuries
- Prophetic
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Envisioning
I envision you on the tropical white sands
Riding a Black stallion
The flow of your body making my heart beat
I see you, but you don’t see me,
As I envision you, in my dreams.
I envision you standing so close to me
I can’t breathe
Reaching to touch you
But knowing I can’t
For my vision has not yet
Become a reality
I envision you underneath the sheets
Making my body explode uncontrollably
I envision you enjoying with me
Many nights filled with ecstasy
I envision you, touching my soul
Candlelit dinners while secrets unfold
Your eyes are dancing, while my heart is smiling
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No one caring who’s wrong or right
In our mindless conversations into the night
I envision you and I, individualized
Becoming us and we, intertwined
What I see with you, I hope you see with me,
A vision of us together, happily.
- Pure
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Smooth Crest
I long for your love
Being of sound mind & soul
I need you
to comfort me
when I can’t sleep
take me to that special place
where we collide into the heavens
and back before seven
I need you, you need me
we long for each other
with the smooth crest of your body
caressing mine
I love the way we move back and forth
- Prophetic
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Knowledge is Key
With all the things I know
I find I know nothing at all
What I thought was big,
turned out to be really small
I tried to argue a point that had no tip
I tried to flip the script
to pages with no meaning
I tried to impress you with my knowledge
Astonish you with my skills
Just to find out
With all the things I thought I knew
It turns out, I know nothing at all.
- Pure
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I want to know why….
I want to know why
You do this to me
This insanity - that wonderful
Lifelong thing called love
But to me it’s a tragedy
I want to know why
You criticize me
Why you don’t love me
Like I love you
Why you talk about me
Behind my back
Tell me why
As these tears roll down my face
Into this river that holds my fate
Good-Bye
- Prophetic
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Bottomless
What can I do when losing you is like . . .
The
Sun
Not
Rising,
The
Wind
Not
Blowing
The
Earth
Not
Spinning?
- Prophetic