Water
Secrets of a Misunderstood Woman
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He left entertaining pieces on the table about her, it engaged the crowd. It seemed he wanted blood. What was it about She’s blood that he liked to draw on. Him couldn’t recognize She was incapacitated by her eyes. He said “hoe.” She said “you’re going to stop disrespecting me in front of people” Him said, “you slept with Blacky” he laughed and joked and everybody in the room laughed. He said, “hoe and a broke ass hoe at that” so she inferred “if I was a hoe I’d have money in my pockets and I wouldn’t be here”. He kept insinuating hoe, Him went to Pops room laughing he closed the door She snapped she had crossed that line, her eyes told. She stormed the hall to Pops room and kicked the door open she grabbed a butcher knife from the shelf and lunged towards Him. She said in a full room as Him had eased himself back into a corner her words were long, “I I I wwwill kill yyyou if you say another word”. Everyone was quiet including Him. Pops said, “calm down baby girl,” She heard him so she eased out the room backwards leashed with the knife. Just when things couldn’t get worse for She, hell opened wide to swallow her whole everything rushed her.
She made her way to the window ledge and turned to open the second floor window as wide as it was made to open someone was going thru it and it wasn’t going to be her. It was too late for me to draw her attention so I tried to hover over her but nothing was permitted. There was a crowd around the table and Him had made it back to his usual spot. She was still mounted on the ledge the knife unconcealed in hand by her thigh. The caveman had entered the room. Him said, “did you know he tried to sell you one night”. She looked at the caveman, “you tried to sell me you tried to sell me” She repeated it like a song. He connected She with a quick glance she wasn’t seeing he knew all to well she had a pattern for sending people running. The caveman retreated to his room in a hurry and locked his door. She turned to attack Him with her words, she said “that’s your fault” I heard you trying to sell me one night. I sat downstairs under your window you had a crowd everything was jokes and laughter to you . At first I didn’t understand the conversation it was about a sexual favor, I heard somewhere in the middle “go ahead She’s downstairs, she can do that”. I heard them saay “howww much” her words were still dragging youu said “forty nine ninety nine”, I will never forget it. He was always placing her sale, there were rumors and he was under currently bold enough to attempt it in her face. He thought she was dense; so they all thought, but she was amazingly witty especially towards Him. He reacted as always testifying she was either paranoid, crazy or that crack had her gone. The people were quiet, they wanted to be entertained.
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Water is the secrets of a misunderstood woman. This is a love conflicted story. It centers around a woman named She and her desires to be with a man she nicked named Him that didn't love her. She couldn't live with the reality of it. So she placed herself in a position to be taken advantage of. She tries everything to make this man love her, but everything wasn't enough. She contrived love to be and it was the beginning of her end.
She was from a sheltered world and a strick father. She would never be able to survive this man that held her heart or the tainted world he lived in. She mingled with the kind of things never fathomed, the sorts that would make you lose your mind, She did. She had left her family for nothing. She had to keep learning the lessons never embraced as a child, to stay away from fire. This man she loved was bitter and his touch burned her skin like acid. She would run from him only to return.
He had taken her looks and broken her. She retreated back to her family because there was no choice. She was now crippled and the swarm of everything she had been through made her mind sick. She had plenty time to think from her bed because she couldn't get out.
Now all She had was God, He was the only thing that kept her strong. As She started to try to piece back her life, the relationship she never had with her father and finding love she never felt for herself, She now knew was the reason for allowing a man with no love to hate her, because she hated herself.
About the Author
In 1985 I was published in the The World of Poetry's book anthology, The Worlds Greatest Poems. In 1992 I received my second poetry award and was honored as a Golden Poet at The World of Poetry's Eighth Annual Poetry Convention. I was a finalist in The Cleveland Plain Dealer's Father's Day writing contest. I am a single mother of two sons. I am a survivor of domestic violence left crippled from the experience. This circumstance manifested "WATER" Secrets Of A Misunderstood Woman. I could not write every instance because it became a storm. I wrote enough to save my sanity. I refuse to be stagnated. In 2008, my sister and I opened a non-profit organization, we named it The UnderWings Project. It is a place designed to help the women and children of domestic violence recover themselves. I am a motivational speaker who has shared with Westside Catholic Center, Witness Victim Service Center, and the Cuyahoga County Cleveland Justice Center to name a few. The proceeds of WATER" will Help The UnderWings Project with our 2010 expansion. I hope my story will help someone recover their life.Remember the more we share the more chances we have to save someones life and end this thing called domestic violence. MEANS TO AN END! I once read a quote from a wiseman, "Great things have no fear of time." I once lived in fear but because of my storms I am fearless.