My Own Book of Revelations How can I live in a system that either does not want me to live or consistently make my life a living hell? if I – while I’m living. I am conflicted with giving up or living in shame. I cannot believe that the person that I have become is the same kind of person I have mocked, or prided myself in not being. At this moment. I now realize that I was raised to be a proud person; sometimes I was just proud when I didn’t deserve to be. The dilemma stands before me to eit...

Short Story… Ascending Tears Written by I. Teddy Bonet Chapter 1 Today I sit here looking into space... Today I sit here just staring into space, never believing in all my life this could happen to me. I am a young black woman with a lot to look forward to, but instead of thinking about college, I am sitting here wondering if I'm pregnant or not. I guess it's not so hard to believe. I mean that's what most people expect from a young black girl raised in a somewhat decent home or trying to act...

Time is a luxury, as well as a commodity, that many of us have not yet learned to master or meter...

Most of my writing focuses on the rationalizations that we have with ourselves. The realizations that come about which ultimately lead to many conversations that we have amongst ourselves daily. I sometimes forget where I’m at on the street and answer myself out loud, and boy do the people cross the street quickly... But I feel and believe that we talk to ourselves for re-assurance and to maintain a connectedness with our spirit & soul. I invite everyone to check out my stuff and leave commen...

Sacrifice Let me explain to some of y’all twink’s what sacrifice is… We all love, we all lose. No one is higher than another, all pains- are just that. Pain… It should make us grow and mature… But when we measure how much more we have endured and suffered, That what we have endured and suffered is more than the next man, woman, child, or even inanimate objects. We have lost. Sacrificed in Vain… Lost the purpose of pain, of sacrifice. Lost the steps of the process, the cycle. The cycle that ma...

I hope that my literary works will make an impact on all people, as well as helping to straighten out the Black and Latin youth of today in America. There is a great need for the setting of good clean examples and morals for these children and adolescents. Babies having babies, and juvenile crime that is on a rise. To help others unlock the secrets of what we all posses inside but need help, guidance and nurturing so desperately. Their actions and behaviors cry out for attention constantly. ...

The Break up Letter… 2004/2005 ? I thought that I could do this, but I can’t. I cannot speak to you anymore. The amount of pain, loss, and longing from you has become unbearable for me. I know what things I have to do, in order to preserve my sanity, to remain free of mind, body and spirit. I must finally and forever break loose from you and the wicked web you have weaved for my life. You were not the kind of person that I needed to be with, and I knew it from the start. I alone deal with th...

2004/2005 ? You took from me. The things I have tried to pass onto you- years of knowledge, wisdom, acceptance of yourself, to love yourself first and foremost. You took them without knowing how to replace them within me, to replenish my heart, mind and soul. So that I could continuously love you unconditionally. You stripped me down throughout the years like the erosion of sand off the shores, from the tides that ebb. Like the reversal of a sapling tree that is supposed to grow layers of thi...

If I ever forgot to say "Thank You"... If I ever… Ever made you feel like less of a person, because of my ignorance or insensitivity. Ever ignored you or took you for granted, because of being preoccupied. Please understand Understand that I am only ONE… Only one man. Only one thought at a time. Only one… Only one shoulder that can lean on me at a time, Only one respite of sanctity, refuge, sanity. For only one person at a time… But nevertheless… I try, Try, And try… Some people are not even ...

Of many people that do not wake up from their slumber, and wish that they had one more day to change/ fix all that they were miserable about. It is just my belief that God is not the one that punishes us, We do a very good job of making ourselves suffer a great deal from all that we have internalized...