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Thursday, July 23, 2009

What do you think?

Short Circuited

Um...

Did anyone else feel that?

It crept eerily up your spine

Or was it just your mind

Playing

Tricks on you.

Sitting there sippin your poison

When something interrupts your vibe.

Not an unwanted reaction

Just not expected, when

Out of nowhere…

While your mind was somewhere

Else.

Inconspicuously

You pivot to expand

Your peripheral view

In order to encompass the one

That has already

Touched you.

This search is droning on

As you listen to song after song

But you are still distracted

Unable to place

The cause of this feeling

Not easily erased.

It still nibbles at

Your inner core

Refusing to be ignored

But where

Is the inspiration

Behind this invocation?

Still playing it cool

And trying not to drool

You spin fully

Still looking around

Eagerly.

You finally catch a glimpse

Of the back of that soul

Passing smoothly

Thru the crowd

Sending ripples

Towards you.

Are the vibrations really

Unintentional?

How can they be this

Strong and yet

The sender is

Oblivious.

What being can

Possess this magnitude

Of reaching and

Detaining you

It fills and swells your

Curiosity.

You sway to the song and try to

Follow along

The sensations calling to

Every cell in your

Body

To seek out

The source.

Suddenly your mission is terminated

By someone else in your face

And you feel assaulted

You’ve been robbed of

Distracted from

Pulled from

The spell of

An internal connection.

Copyright 2009 Natasha Guy

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Hair

Ok...so I just read a blog about black women being "afraid" to acknowledge their black hair by perming it. Now dont get me wrong I know there are some people out there who may perm their hair specifically because they dont want to "embrace" their black culture. However, WHYYYY do I have to keep my hair natural just to embrace the culture? The black culture is not JUST hair. I'm so annoyed with this! The way I wear my hair has nothing to do with how black I am! I'm not less black because I perm it, and I'm not more black when I decide not to. I do what I can manage the best at the time.

Sometimes thats to straighten it, other times it's easier to not worry about perming it. In the winter, I like to wear my hair down. I like how it looks straight and flat, so I perm it almost religiously during the winter months. I like to swim or be outside during the summer. It's also way too hot to keep it down; the way my head sweats, itd be frizzy anyway. So, during the summer months I usually don't perm my hair at all...maybe once lol. Braids or pony tails, etc work best during those months.

I say all that to say...my hair doesnt not make me who I am. It just means I was feeling it that day!