Nova-rose-greene - Nova Rose

To Me

From Me

Love You

Love Me

Happy Valentines Day

5/26/18

We use each other to move each other

We push and pull

Till we’re both fulfilled

I speak you listen

You guide I follow

You challenge me to be it all

You challenge me to be my best self

I inspire you I think

I challenge you to see a different point of view

I challenge you to be great

You love me

Purely

You love me in a way I’ve never seen before

You loved me as God Loves us all

You loved me unconditionally.

You never forget about me. I always said I was a Christian, but I saw God when I met you.

You were always there when I needed.

You didn’t know I needed you but you knew to call.

I didn’t always know I needed you but I was always glad when you called.

You are always patient with me

You give me the space to be

You make me want to

Your spirit gives me permission to open up

Your being gave me the encouragement to want to be free.

I always wanted to meet someone

I could grow with

And here I am

catching myself bloom

I always said I was a Christian

But I never met God until I met you

One day you said I love you

and it felt like the most comforting words. I felt accepted.

It felt so Pure

You said you loved me and I believed you

you said it again and again

And I couldn’t breathe

you thanked God for making me

and I thanked God for making you.

One day you said you didn’t love me

Because of how I looked or what I could do. You didn’t love me because I made you feel a certain way

You said you loved me because you loved God

You said you loved me simply because you do.

Your spirit saw mine and they grew and glowed.

They loved each other

We brightened each other’s lights

I saw God in you and it brought to life the God in me.

I’ve heard that words 1,000 times

That God is Love

But I never knew those word till the Day you said them

I had never met God until I met you

Diversity

I grew up as one of the only black kids in my bubble

There were kids of color but not in my honor classes

Not in my neighborhood

My mom didn’t live near my family she didn’t like them that much

So we were separated

What I know is general black history knowledge

What I knew is what tv taught me

And then my mom didn’t even let me watch spike lee or roots till I was in high school.

What I crave is dates stories histories and facts

In the push for diverse material and works to spark conversations , faculty aren’t prepared to lead conversations.

It’s like we just want to start discussions but no one knows what to say.

We want to include people in conversations but the story you want me to present I don’t have

It’s hard to speak up for the black experience and be that voice when I don’t feel secure about my own blackness.

I too want to talk about different cultures

I too want to be educated

You can’t look to me to educate you when I am looking to you to educate me.

This is why representation matters

Because if you don’t know

And I don’t know

Then who does?

Who can educate us

Who can spark these conversations

Who will teach the unspoken history

Who will rewrite the textbooks

Who can give us the language to begin to explore what we truly wanted to talk about.

Identity

The other

When we read Lynn nottage I can’t tell you what black people think about the work

I can tell you what I think

But please tell me what Lynn was thinking

Tell me about her experiences and how it came through in her story

I can relate

Maybe

And if not then glad we all shared a conversation over this single perspective

I am a caterpillar who cocoons every other season.

Sure I change

Sure I transform

But never just once

She

They

Ze

Bri

Nova

Greene

Gause

omg

Jesus

I just want to be who you called me to be

Speak to those who you need to hear just from me

I have a purpose and a calling and I move from person to person

From moment to moment

Picking up what I can and need so I can help someone else in need

Women are human , and humans do whatever their curiosity, imagination, and hearts lead them to do.

Not the words and rules created by other humans.

When did my face look like this

How did I get to my 20s

When did I grow up

How much more growing do I have left?

When will I notice next

What I will notice next