STOP human trafficking!!!

And to the Little Ones
Swiped from her village
sold for a dime by poor parents
to a rich global market
Taka's 10-year-old bones rattle with fear.
Heart?
bound to earth - chained.
Beaten down to size in small back rooms
Spirit broken by westerners who promise the world
and leave her a lump of mud.
No breath...
No breath...
Can't breathe in this tomb.
Taka's humanity
her dignity
her soul
is battered and bartered
on the black market for a dime.
And pundits predict her body will be found
in a ditch in an alley
some - day.
Vacant eyes wander her neighborhood
She is "Sold!" for a dime bag
by her crack head momma
to suits and briefcases with Jersey plates
Takisha's 10-year-old bones rattle with fear.
Stolen
from school
and dreams
and friends.
Her lifeless body puts food on the table
She eats the devil's dinner
And her humanity
her dignity
her soul
vanishes.
No breath...
No breath...
Can't breathe in this toxic corner of the world.
And pundits predict Takisha's vacant body will be found in an ally or a trash can
before her 18th birthday.
And thus says the Lord,
"Come from the four winds, o breath!
And breathe upon the slain!
That they may live!"
That they may live!
That they may run and play and lay in the streets and look up at the stars
That they may dream of romance and significance and peace for their families
and their people.
That they may breathe and stand and live...
And to Taka and Takisha
to their rattling bones
to the little ones
who bear God's image
The Lord God says,
"Breathe..."
"Stand..."
"Live..."
-Lisa Sharon Harper

Am I Alice

The white rabbit disappears..down down down, isn't that how it goes? always the rabbit...,

if only
if only
rabbit, where do you go?
surely if a Wonderland existed..I would have known
those hours and thoughts spent searching, spinning, twisting..
You would think Alice would've shown me the way...
Like a dream, I can picture her in front, a haze of a girl, beckoning, calling,
knowing that at this moment I would follow her
down down down that rabbit hole, the unknown tasting good in the back of my mind
the chills in my fingertips sparkle and clench like magic
or if magic existed at all...
this would be the sign
almost like falling in love
quick
fast
slow
stop
repeat...
always repeat...
always down down down
tumbling...
falling...
what if I...
JUMPED..
what if I choose..
not to tumble into the unknown...
but to glide and fly and break into the air with broken wings
fragments rain down all around..
of me...
shards..
promises...secrets...something like a dream
is there a differrence between falling and jumping
or is it all just
swimming in the unknown
and feeling the fall
you be the judge
the world
is
OUR
abyss.

Salutations!

Howdy y'all. okay not really southern but I couldn't resist such a cliched greeting! okay I guess I could go with salutations! Honestly though, that just brings to mind the subtlety strange  yet somehow adorable friendship of a spider and a pig.

Im off to a fairly ridiculous start but whats life without a LOT of laughter..? :] 

Well here's basically the highlights of my story so far (though its still being written): I am a Christian (now dont roll your eyes or click that red x in the corner!) Its not about what your thinking...its not even about you, or about me..its about a God that loves us 100% at ALL TIMES! how amazing is that???!!! a God who loves and forgives, and rescues endlessly! 

It's about Him and His Son Jesus and the gift He gave of everlasting life so that my "ending" always has the hope of happiness and pure joy! It wont be easy, but just believing in the possibility of a happy ending is such a powerful thing!

I love love love reading!!! Harry Potter, Narnia, Sarah Dessen books and The Mark of the Lion to name a few...though I must warn you, much of my blogging will consist of amazing and insightful book reviews :P

I love writing and