https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/jaha-zainabu/hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/jaha-zainabu/457052Take me back Take me back Take me back, dear Lord To the place Where I first received You Today I visited the church I grew up in. Against the folkways of the dress standard, I wore dashiki and blue jeans. This has been a year of confounding emotional backs and forths and I, to my own...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/jaha-zainabu/456499when my son was in the first grade he was in a math competition in his class. easy rules. whoever answered the math questions correctly first was the winner. the winner of this fierce competition, that lasted twenty minutes (maybe), would get a package of flexipencils. twelve of them. i mean,...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/jaha-zainabu/456058im going walking. God is good. God is good. i am at peace with my life. i love myself. i am happy with who i am. i am happy with who i am. *note here, the entries in your journal when youre reminding yourself of how happy you were over and over. sometimes you werent.https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/jaha-zainabu/455623sometimes its in you / just in you / gotta come out / dont matter none / that it dont make sense to nobody / not even you / especially you it dont matter none / that you cant sing / or write a poem / tell no story / nothin like that what difference it make / dont nobody wanna hear it / or if you...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/jaha-zainabu/455076the fall is the best time of year to me trees got red and yellow leaves and green got brown all in it and me i dont never rake no leaves let em all fall what i got to say about it my neighbors dont know which to do with me let em all fall let em fall in a million big ole piles and i go into my...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/jaha-zainabu/454963God holds the hearts of women in a special place / i feel / the benevolent eye that watches the sparrow / watches us / i know / still the conversations of victim / defeat / and not enough / show up / harmoniously / in whispers / often / today we understand / as if understanding were cure /...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/jaha-zainabu/454897it comes most in the dark of morning / the remembering of stories you never had to tell / truths about daddy i would find out soon enough anyway / or not / luxuries you could not afford / because he gambled the check away sometimes / he chased women sometimes what you had to swallow / hearing us...