"Fast Metabolism."

I just ate, but I am hungry again.
This is something that I love having, but
I just can't keep eating if I don't
exercise. I need to go relieve stress,
anyway but I'm all the way down
in the flats. Here's to healthy eating 'til
I'm able to go back again, which will
be after Wednesday sometime. I can have
this because I'm always on the go but
once break comes, I really don't know. We'll see
because I am a vacuum at home, I
can think of the foods now! Collard greens, mac
and cheese, chicken, banana pudding... YUM
in my tum.

Poem 15, "Me, Anew."

You were a girl who struggled with low self-esteem and depression. There was practically nothing that could make you come out of it except… one day there was this guy who expressed his interest in you. Without him getting to know you and you getting to know him as a friend, you both skipped to dating. The relationship went higher and higher and then, BAM! It fell. God had something He wanted to show you.

First, you needed to know who you were and whose you were which was something you thought you knew before you got into this relationship, but you didn’t. Second, you needed to learn how to love and appreciate yourself for who you were and the person you were to become. Never did you think that you’d take such a journey as this.

For over a year, you worked and you worked hard. Slowly but surely, you started to love yourself and appreciate you. You also became optimistic by setting a goal to reach, forgetting all things that were behind. Piece by piece, the shell began to crack and fall apart in which you began to realized how you were made: fearfully and wonderfully.

December came and you did it, you lost fifty pounds! You kept the faith alive through your hard work. Even though you didn’t want to at times, you worked at it with all of your hear. Everyone shares in your joy accomplishing something so great and being an example to all to be healthy and confident with who God made you to be.

You’re not finished yet, keep going… And remember, on one can define you unless they created you!

Poem 14, "Reminiscing."

You were so little when you came to us.

Trouble you’d never cause, not even a little fuss.

You, I and sleep together

Caused us to be the best of friends, forever.

You’d run around and play, doing only half of the things I told you to.

Sneaky you were also eating things that weren’t yours, like the day you ate our fruit.

But life was never boring when you were around,

Especially when you grew to your full size by eating anything you found.

I remember your rides in the green wheelbarrow to help build my strength.

And I’ll always remember you being there when I needed you, by my side at arm’s length.

When I cried, you were there for me.

Always keeping me company.

Another thing I remember, when Dad tricked you.

In a wheelbarrow you went but water was there too.

Oh how you hated water after that,

It took a long time for us to get your trust back.

Then it was the end and time to make a decision,

Whether you wanted to go on or whether you wanted to keep livin’.

You decided it was time to go, because things became hard.

And now you’re in doggy heaven being our spiritual house guard.