d the power of words on paper. The author California Cooper has come to her 3rd grade class to teach the construction of a poem. It was published her 5 word haiku. Writing was her S

it all without seeming disrespectful or guilty of talking back when answer given were unacceptable. It was her therapy. A method

the corridor to this physical plane battle within herself because her Soul hurt. Beneath the Baba Yaya was a fragile woman who had never been loved or heard to her satisfaction. She possessed a woman's heart that had been trampled, disregarded and thrown away by a Man guilty of paying homage to

o indirect teachings that women stay even when there's no love at the table or the mere fact you're married. The vows, ring and government contract that bonded them meant nothing. She carrying his second seed he would divorce her to marry his mistress. The betrayal would not end because as the B

hat had once been rejected. Because there was no moral fabric around who, the exchange always went awry. This resulted not in healing and rest but carved out pained that was spued upon her seeds where she offered 1 ster

were married on her mother's side but this didn't mean they or their children were happy. It didn't mean that they too weren't suffering quietly in a jail with the facade of being a home. She never saw the women of her family held tightly and tenderly by the men they called husband. Her teachers appeared

as whispered, avoided and/or shouted from down the street by God herself. The choice would also be laced with benefits or consequences