YOUNG && BEAUTIFUL

never talk about them

barely acknowledge them

hope they go away

i don’t, basically

that’s what i’m saying

☔: my muses reaction to opening their front door and seeing yours drenched in rain

⚡: how my muse calms yours in a lightening storm while they’re pulled over on the side of the road

☆: my muse comforting yours while they get a tattoo

☏: my muse’s reaction to getting a phone call from the hospital about your muse

☯: what my muse says to yours after they haven’t spoken for five hours since a fight

✏: my muse’s letter to yours that they left after they passed away

⚰: my muse’s reaction to watching yours die from afar

✿: my muse’s reaction to leaving a cut on your muse’s body

♒: my muse’s reaction to finding your muse bruised and beaten on their doorstep

⚈: my muse’s reaction to finding drugs in your muse’s handbag

✺: my muse protecting yours from a sleaze at the club

☠: my muse’s reaction to being told that your muse is missing, and presumed dead

☺: my muse finding yours on the side of the road, hours away from home

✖: the last thing my muse says to yours before leaving for good

⌛: the voicemail my muse leaves on your phone when your muse hasn’t been heard from for the fifth night this week

☕: my muse comforting yours after the death of a loved one

⚱: my muse’s reaction to waking up to yours muse, beaten by mine, but my muse has no recollection of the night before

☉: my muse’s reaction to finding yours in a public bathroom, drugged and almost unconscious

           OOH! you know what, we can change that, you know why?                                                 CUZ I’M THE PRESIDENT

The good lord works in mysterious ways.

Who’s the daddy?

Got nothing to give you but a prayer.

To part with you - more than I can bear.

Somebody’s gonna love you.

I’m always gonna love you.

I wanna know how the world goes.

I wanna sit and do nothing.

When I lay me down to sleep, I will say my prayer.

One day our children will sing…

No! Dear God! Don’t take my __!

Nothing but death will keep me from you!

You can’t do this!

I never ask for anything, but I’m asking this.

Dear God, I love this woman!

I love __. God knows I do.

I’ll kill him dead before before I let him or anybody beat me.

All my life, I had to fight. 

I feel sorry for you, to tell you the truth.

If a man raise his hand – hell no!

Sick and tired how a woman still live like a slave.

You better learn how to fight back while you’re still alive.

He’d climb on top and start to rock me away.

You’re too good for that man.

Brown-legged woman put a spell on me.

Whatever she is, that girl sure is fine.

Lock up your mens and your young boys too.

__ ain’t go not friend except the ones she screw.

Got about a million tingles sneaking on up my spine.

I wash her body and it feel like i’m praying.

Try not to look, but my eyes ain’t obeying.

You’re not ugly. You’re the grace of God if I ever see it.

You hush my mouth and still me with a song I’ve never heard.

When I see what’s in your heart, all the rest is blur.

Don’t you know you’re beautiful, too beautiful for words?

If you wanna light your man on fire, you gotta start it real slow.

Well, that’s first time I’ve ever been knocked down without throwing’ a punch!

Like I said, fine with me.

You hear that, bitch?

She best leave you alone.

Nobody ever love me like you.

Is that me who’s floating away? Lifted up to the clouds by a kiss.

Love’s the one thing I knew all about.

I want you to be a story for me that I can believe in forever.

What about love?

Will you be my light in the storm?

Years go by and still you’re with me.

I pray for your reply.

You could put everything I knew in a thimble.

They think I should be married.

I am nobody’s mother, but I am somebody.

I have faith that god will let us see each other again before we die.

God forgot about me.

God’s not a man at all.

God is inside you and everyone else, that was or ever will be.

I may be black, I may be ugly, I may be a woman - but I’m here!

Maybe all my good lays ahead of me.

Is there anything I can do for you?

I love this boy and I’m scared to death.

You know this boy’s gonna hurt me twice as much as I’m hurting you.

Please just forgive me.

Let me come back when it’s over.

No. You know I love you and you still do this? No.

I don’t need you to love me.

She/he may not be here, but she/he’s still mine.

I’m gonna take a deep breath, gonna hold my head up, gonna put my shoulders back and look you straight in the eye.

I’m gonna flirt with somebody when they walk by.

I believe i have inside of me everything that I need to live a bountiful life.

With all the love alive in me, I’ll stand as tall as the tallest tree.

I’m thankful for everyday that i’m given, both the easy and hard ones i’m living.

I’m thankful for loving who I really am.

I’m beautiful.

Martha and Thomas Jefferson lived in Monticello. They both shared a love of music, Thomas would play the violin while Martha accompanied him on the piano. They had eight children, but only two survived until adulthood. 

      LIGHTS UP ON WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ––––