Im Coming Out

Im coming out
Coming out to the world
Coming out to you
Im coming out
So I can be free
So I can be true
Im coming out
So I won't hide anymore
So I won't lie to you
Im coming out
Because of all of the confusions
Because of being suppressed

Don't put a title on me
I don't want to be labeled
Don't ask me questions
I am liberated
I am not a freak
I am just like you

I have ten fingers
Ten toes
Two eyes and ears
One heart
One brain

No difference you see
Just trying to be me
Only without a preference that I'm guided by

I don't
I won't
I can't discriminate

I like them short or tall
Long hair or ball
Fat or skinny
Girl or boy
Black,White,Brown,Red, Yellow
Who cares
I love them all
Thats why im coming out

This is who I am
Just being me
Don't try to picture me as someone I can not be
See me for who I truly am
This is my destiny
Can't you see

Thats why
Im coming out
Coming out to the world
Coming out to you
Im coming out
So I can be free
So I can be true
Im coming out
So I won't hide anymore
So I won't lie to you
Im coming out
Because of all of the confusions
Because of being suppressed

For The Honor Of My Family

I know not why it is important or why it should be done. I know not why my Sisters of the world I live in must go through this. I know not why other than it is a must. Nothing is what I can become if it is not done. Belittled is how I will be treated. Dirty, filthy, beneath the scum on the Earth is how I will me looked at. My friends will be no longer because I would be not like the rest. I would be a disgrace. Just your everyday trash that everyone sees on the road, but no one wants to clean up. Others will look upon my family with shame and with the repugnance in their eyes look down on us. Turn up their noses like we like we carry the stench of rotten offal. I seen it all happen to a girl who is not a girl any more. Her mother was like mine. She was always trying to prolong the inevitable. I watched from a distance the way she was treated. I often thought she was going be different and rise above the rest. Well that was until I saw her mother be taught a "lesson" by her father. That was when I knew her specialness was to be taken away.Now they say she is a women now like the rest of them. They now look at her and see honor with the same eyes that they saw disgrace. I wander how can she be a woman without her womanness.The very thing that defines who us, Sisters, of the world is. Therefore I know not how she is a woman, but for the honor of my family I will be to.

~About FGM

Animals All Around

Animals All Around
Aardvark ears pressed to the ground listening for ants
Beaver by the river collecting twigs from the branches
Camel with its' hump roaming through he desert
Dingo with its' long ears resting in the grass
Elephant as big as an house sits by a tree
Fly-Foxes soars through the midnight air
Giraffes with their long necks look for food in the trees
Humpback Whales sailing through the clear blue sea
Impalas with their long horns wrestle for their mate
Jaguar who can kill its prey in one swift bite is the best of the cats
Koala being an adorable bundle of fur carries the joey on its' back
Lion walks through the jungle like he is king
Mountain Goats sitting high up in the mountains
Nile Crocodile swims up the Nile blending into the river
Ostrich big body, long neck, and small head makes for the worlds biggest bird
Pandas unlike no other belongs to a class of their own with their black and white fur
Quolls can not be mistaken for any other with their spots and very long tail
Raccoons looking sneaky and mysterious with their black fur mask
Sharks can be killers of the sea with their tiny sharp teeth and triangle shape nose
Tasmanian Devils are a tornado of trouble with their black fur and razor sharp teeth
Unicorn is that mystical creature with the swirled horn on its nose
Vole that hides in the grass from predators cause it is a small fat rat
Wolverine is that small but powerful animal that can drive even a bear from its prey
Xiphias swims through the water with its sword like nose
Yaks looking like Buffalos with bigger horns grazing the grass
Zebras with their strips rest by a tree
At last there is the Humans sitting at the top and trying to be the best

FGM (Female Gential Mutilation)

The night before her eleventh birthday
Her mother woke her up
She said that it was time to make a woman out of her
To make her pure
So she would not be dirty or a disgrace

They went to a witch doctor
Where they cut her specialness away
Pain was all she felt
She called for her mother
But her mother never came

When it was over the daughter thought
I am now pure, innocent
and not a disgrace

Do You Know Who I Am?

Do You Know Who I Am
I Am New Orleans
That Place You Want To Be
That Place You Want To See
I Am The French Quarters
The Garden District
Canal Street
With My Buddy Bourbon Street On The Side Of Me
I Am the Swamps And The Bayous
I Am The Above Ground Cemeteries
The Plantations And City Park
I Am The River Walk And Audubon Park
I Am The Zoo And The Aquarium
That You Come To See
I Am Mardi Gras World
Cause
I

Am
Mardi Gras
I Am That Party Town That You Heard About
You Know
The Big Easy
But
Do You Know
Who I Really Am
I Don't Think So
It Is Not A Secret So I Am Gonna Tell You
I Am That Hustler That Makes The Block
I Am That Child Who's Having A Child
I Am That Crack Head Begging For Change
I Am That Hood Rat
That Wanna Be Gangster
That Baby Mamma
Baby Daddy
Drama
I Am That Blind Man In Front Of Wal-Greens
That Crazy Man A Cross The Street
I Am The Under-funded Schools
The Over-funded Police
That Only Cause More Trouble Then There Is
I Am That Little Girl And Little Boy That Sees Stars
Only To Gets Shot Down By All The Negative Environments
I Am Corners Like Second And D Where My People Get Shot
I Am The Hospitals With Not Enough Beds
The Homeless Shelter With Not Enough Shelter
I Am That Hurricane After Hurricane
I Am That Broken House On Every Block
I Am Those Nights Filled With Sirens
I Am The House Filled With Tears
I Am That Mysterious Destination
So Come On And Visit Me
Party
Drink
Play
And Have Fun
Come Take In My Sights
They Are Beautiful To See
But Once Your Done
Leave!
So You Won't Have To See The Misery
That I Hold
Cause
I
AM
NEW ORLEANS
So Do You Now Know Who I Am?
I Am That Place You Want To BeThat Place You Want To See
But Not That Place You Want To Stay

At Least Until They Fix Me

Dear Con-See Quenches:

It has been awhile since I wrote to you. Lately things have been good, yet some things have not. Today I have decided to skip school because me and some friends wanted to go to the park. We had fun just sitting and chilling without a care in the world. But all good things have to come to an end. I already know that I will be getting a visit from you. Throughout each class you will appear. You might even arrive early depending on if my mother goes out and gets you when I get home. Seeing how I know you are coming I am prepared, so you can give me all you got.

Signed Sierra

Maybe

Maybe my voice would be heard
Maybe it will rise above yours
Maybe they can hear me from far away
Maybe they won't say,'what did she say'
Maybe I can catch the attention of many others
Maybe I can stop saying maybe
Maybe I can speak my mind
Maybe I can do what I want
Maybe I won't let my limitations keep me from
Maybe I can have fun for once
Maybe I can go along
Maybe I can stop thinking and just do
Maybe I can stop saying maybe
Maybe I won't care about what you do
Maybe I won't care about what you do
Maybe I just wont care about you
Maybe I won't care about what you say
Maybe I won't care about what I do
Maybe I won't care at all
Maybe I can just let everything go
Maybe I can stop saying maybe
Maybe just maybe it's not me it's you
Maybe I just need to let you go
So you can just let me be
Let me be me
Let me be like what MLK said
And that's FREE
Free at Last
Free at Last
Thank God Almighty
Maybe I can be Free at Last