Da Art of Storytellin'

Repost: Apr 2, 2009

 

9 times out of 10...you can best believe that these blogs are written from personal experience, personal thoughts and beliefs.

On da real - it's all me in a sense. Those who know me could really tell deep down in thier hearts what it's all about with me.

So this blog brings me back to my days as a young women just starting out in the university and my poetry was EVERYTHING to me...not that it is nothing to me now...I just lost my way is all

but back then - it was my life. A poem was written for everything...anything I felt - I wrote it out and if I needed to...I recited that poem to the person that brought on those feelings in me.

So one day, I am sharing my poetry with a good brethren of mine and I know we met under the hyped up pretense of what university life was "supposed" to be about for us african-americans...but i later found this brotha to be real and to be really be a friend of mine.

so I am e-mailing my lastest work to him and I wait for the reply...
He simply states that I must have loved more than once and loved hard...

I corrected him..."naw, my brotha...I neva fell - not even once." I was young back then...or should I say much younger...bout 10 years ago...

But still...I ain't neva been in love....people say to me...oh yes you have stop lying...stop playing like you hard.

I'm a bad liar and i don't play like nothin' - I can only be Erica...

So when I say that I hava neva been in love...you can believe that...I think I would know it if I have...

so he then asked of me...how is it then that you can write like this....like you been there before???

I replied....I just sit back and start imagining and then I just go off into this place and in an instant - I am who I want to be to get what I want to feel on paper.

It's da art of storytellin'