The sad part about it is that the only person that can see or ever know a DIAMOND or WATER is the one that possess the same qualities and makeup. When someone enters your life and doesn’t see the VALUE and WORTH in you as the two aforementioned above; they are either of the two………..they aren’t truly a DIAMOND/WATER (it is hard to fake, and if it is, it can’t be for too long) or they are not YOURS!!!! If they are, then they will esteem you highly as they do themselves!!! Take a moment and evaluate the relationship ties that you share with others and make sure that the time and energy that you are giving to a person is another fellow DIAMOND/WATER. What good would it do you to consort with anything or anyone less? Please hear me and hear me well…….all it does is bring down “YOUR PROPERTY VALUE.” And in the end where does that leave your personal profit?

The music I am feeling right now is of the GOSPEL and JAZZ origin. I like Tamia, Eric Benet, Chante Moore, John P. Kee, Kirk Franklin, and Fred Hammond. From the Classic R&B regime……Earth, Wind and Fire, the O’Jays, the Isley Brothers, and beggin’ Barry White!!

A book that I would recommend is the BIBLE.!!

An unsung hero of mine are Jesus Christ and my daughter Jasmine, who believe it or not has taught me some lessons packed with values and standards. She is a great Humanitarian-to-be with a keen sense of fairness and justice at such an early age. She is a soon upcoming force to be reckoned with.

I am a straight comedy buff, so any movie that is funny like “RUSH HOUR” and “FRIDAY” I am there. I also like STAND-UP comedy!!!

I just thought I’d stop by BLACK PLANET also and visit more of my peeps. I wanted to leave my Insignia, my mark, my brand, and my impression upon you, your life, and your heart. I would like to say to all my vertically inclined brotha’s and sista’ to keep striving and being bout it bout it!! Remember that the black race is a strong powerful race!!!

Could You Be Him?

When a man loves a woman, he will display that certain LOVE JONES
He will be responsible and make amends for all his wrongs
Treating a lady like a lady and bringing back chivalry
Dedicated and devoted to that special one, found in his destiny
His world would transform taking on the characteristic of UNITY
Him, his wife, and his children only, creating a perfect trinity.

I am in search of this type of man, could you be him?
Simple, yet complex, with the staying power not carried away on a whim
A man that is a man, trust me, through and through
Holding firm to his commitments with deep desires to be true
Can you stay by your woman’s side when things are bleak and dim?
I am in search of this type of man, could you be him?

In return for devoted love and companionship, these things I pledge to you
Today, from this moment on, I promise to keep every word I am saying I’d do
I am here with you baby, “come rain or shine, in good times and bad”
It is an old cliché to say the least, that many can’t keep, and that is sad
Planting my feet firmly and never in quicksand, when you can’t continue, baby I can
I’ll be that strong woman that they say stands by and behind every good man

I am in search of a particular and specific type of man
Whereas distance between time really doesn’t matter or between land
With nothing to prove is of concern or the essence, except to himself and the APPLE (of his eye)
One who knows a woman’s needs and understands most of the reasons why
Are YOU willing to be daring, bold, adventurous and go out on a limb?
Are you the "one" I am in search of, could you be him?

Written by....Blak2china

I was up recently writing this poem. Let's say that it was 4am on an early Tuesday on the morning of February 8, 2000. As usual when I write, I am inspired to do so......you go figure!!!

THE STRANGER

SOMETHING STRANGE HAS HAPPENED AND IT’S TRUE NATURE I AM NOT COMPLETLEY SURE
THERE IS THIS MAN THAT COMES FROM NO WHERE, THAT POSSESSED KEYS TO A CLOSED DOOR
WHERE COULD ONE HAVE FOUND THE HIDING PLACE OF SUCH KEYS IS SO BEYOND ME
WHAT DIRECTON HAS HE HAILED FROM AND WHO COULD THIS MEEK AND GENTLE STRANGER BE?
MY HEART HAS BEEN WARNED ABOUT THE NEW STRANGER IN TOWN AND HE WANTS TO OWN THE LAND
SHOULD I BE VERY CAUTIOUS AND KEEP MY HEART SAFE AND SECURE IN MY OWN HAND?

BUT TO PRTOECT MY HEART I MUST AND NOT LET IT BE TAKEN ON A FANCY OR ON A WHIM
THIS STRANGER HAS SOME WONDERFUL QUALITIES AND OH, HOW THEY CAN PULL YOU IN
I AM FIGHTING LIKE THE BATTLE AT GOOD OLE CUSTER’S LAST STAND
HEART IN TOW AND I AM RUNNING AS FAST AS I CAN
WHERE I AM GOING AND WHAT SHOULD I DO, I STILL DO NOT KNOW
ONE OF THOSE YOU CAN RUN BUT YOU CANNOT HIDE, FOR HE IS WHEREVER I GO

I MUST FACE FACTS THAT THIS OLD HEART IS DOOMED AND HAS RUN OUT OF TIME
SOME HOW I HAVE BEEN SENT MESSAGES THAT I COULD NOT SEE THAT WERE SUBLIME
ONE NIGHT I WENT TO SLEEP AND I AWAKEN FROM MY SLUMBER DEEP

I HAD THE URGE TO CONNECT WITH THIS STRANGER AND POSSIBLY FOR KEEPS
HE CAME ON A MISSION AND WITH ONE TASK IN MIND,
IN SEARCH OF HIS SOULMATE THAT WAS SO HARD TO FIND
HE KNEW WHAT HE WAS SEEKING WITH ALL CERTAINTY, AND HE SAW ME STANDING THERE
ONE LOOK, ONE GLANCE, ONE GLIMPSE, AND THEN A LONG LINGERING STARE
A SMILE SUDDENLY CREPT ACROSS HIS FACE AND HE MOVED SLOWLY TOWARD ME

HE OPENED HIS HAND AND SAID, “AN OLD LADY TOLD ME THAT THE WOMAN THAT WAS TO BE MY WIFE
WOULD HAVE SOME SCARS FROM BATTLE AND WOULD BE VERY SEASONED BY LIFE
INSIDE MY OWN HAND IS A SCAR WITH MARKS SO INDESCRIBABLE AND ONE OF A KIND
AND THAT MY WIFE WOULD, IF I LOOKED INSIDE HER OPPOSITE HAND WOULD HAVE THE SAME MARKS AS MINE
FOR SHE WILL HAVE BEEN THROUGH WHAT I HAVE BEEN THROUGH AND MAYBE, MAYBE MORE
SHE WILL BE THE ONE TO END THE QUEST THAT YOU HAVE STARTED OUT FOR.”

I LOOKED AWAY AND THOUGHT THAT THIS MAN IS SURELY CRAZY AND MAD
BUT I WAS CURIOUS AND I LOOKED INTO MY OWN HAND AND IN MY RIGHT HAND SCARS I HAD
THIS WAS A SHOCK TO ME BECAUSE UNTIL THIS DAY I NEVER REALIZED THAT THEY WERE THERE
I PUT OUT MY HAND AND PLACED IT IN HIS, HE LOOKED AT IT FOR EONS IT SEEMED AND HE KISSED THE SCARS
DEAR YOU ARE MY SOULMATE AS THE LADY HAS SAID THAT SHE SEEN IT WRITTEN IN THE STARS
I LOOKED IN HIS EYES AND I KNEW IT TO BE SO VERY TRUE
I SAID, “I GIVE YOU MY HEART!” AND HE SAID, “I GIVE MINE TO YOU!”

WHO AM I MISSING?

When someone asks me, “Who am I missing?”
I say that, “I am missing YOU!”
When someone asks me, “Who am I kissing?”
I say, “I only kiss the ONE who is true!”
When someone asks me, “Who am I lovin’?”
I say, “There is only one love that I would ever woo!”

If  I could spend time with anyone, I’d CHOOSE to spend it with you!!

When someone asks me, “When did this love affair start?”
I say, “The moment I laid my eyes upon you!!”
When someone asks me, “Where is my heart?”
I say, “My heart lives within and on the inside of YOU!”
When someone asks, “Who does my  “LOVE” long for?”
I say, “To the ONLY man that I could ever adore!”

If I could spend time with anyone, I’d CHOOSE to spend it with you
If I were to give you anything at all, I’d give my heart to you!!!

Written by Blak2china

Here is a little poem I wrote a few years ago for you that like a little sweetness for the poetic palette….

RUNAWAY LOVE

I lie in my bed night after night with you on my mind
I put my nose to the plow pleading for the nearness of your presence
I beseech you, I adjure you, I entreat you for a word from you
Sometimes I wait patiently and at others impatiently
I knock at your door and you don’t seem to answer

Am I cast away into the night as a useless voyager?
Intense desire to know you grows emphatically in my bosom
Why place there such a desire so enormous with no place to gush forward?
Explosiveness I fear has come over me for I cannot contain my emotional overflowing
You once loved me sweetly, is it not the same as before?
Where is your passion and love for me that I once knew?
Are you not he that loved me and I took part of his soul?
Or shall I not believe in this and search for another? 

Show me your face my love so that I may impress it upon my heart
Let me once again introduce it to my spirit
Visit me in the night and awaken and swoon me
For I am like you; strong in desire and also in jealousy
DO you now love another and my love in you is displaced
Shall I wait for your return or fall madly in love with life?
Does temptation want your beloved more than you? 

Will you not set out to conquer and destroy such a one?
I folly in this languid state of resolution of self
I face a mountain in the valley of desolation and barrenness
Who will rush to save me, is it not my lover’s duty?
I beseech you, I adjure you, I entreat you for a word from you

Written by.......Blak2china

For those that are feelin’ and diggin’ my flow so far, here is another one for the road. This particular one was inspired by a friend…..*S*

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A One-Night Stand

Ah yes, in the midst of a heavily crowded room
Beautifully she stood, a gorgeous woman many men wish to swoon
One daring soul looked up and their eyes did meet
Courageously she walked toward him unafraid he may retreat
She sung her name and it danced and danced in his ear
He caught it and held the name “CHINA” tightly for it may disappear
 

Mesmerized by her beauty he assessed her from head to toe
What compelled this married man to trust in her eyes, he did not know
They were the color of a new Fallen Sunset and intricately carved lips placed just so
Her body was delicate and her breasts he silently wished to bestow
Skin the color of sweet-creamed mocha once gently kissed by the sun
Hoped for a flaw, wishful thinking, for he could find none 


She looked him up and down with a mischievous grin and then pointed the way
He knew where she was taking him, he knew with her he’d lay
He followed her willingly into the elevator taking a deep breath, and then up to 22nd floor
The room already set up seemed like a planned rendezvous, then she seductively shut the door
She stood in the middle of the room staring at him, with her finger beckoning him to come near
With the moves of a smooth jungle lion, he closed the distance, while removing his gear
Peeled away the articles of her clothing, down to her black racy bra and panties, one by one
Now there is no turning back, for this lusty and tasty lovemaking session has begun
Candles were lit and their shadows were making love to the walls in the night
He caressed and explored her body with intentions to hold on tight 


Lying beside her he learned forward to kiss her soft tender lips 
Took his left hand and ran it down her stomach to her petite hips
His tongue bathes her from her neck to in between her supple thighs
An enticing aroma filled his nose as he gently bit and nibbled with sighs
She reached out to him and he could feel her GO AHEAD plea
He took his tongue and inserted it deep within her warm moist valley
Moving and rolling her hips, she moaned with PURE delight
His lovemaking was truly an art form, not selfish or contrite
 

Running and sliding her hands down his body, she could feel that he was ripe
No more moments stolen by time, that power she would suddenly snipe
Guiding him up smoothly toward her, his reward, she was ready to give
For him to come and slip between her legs is a pleasure worth waiting to live
She could feel every single inch of him as he picked her up and leaned her against the wall
Nothing was left to the imagination any longer, every stroke she felt, and she felt him all
Up and down they moved hungrily, slowly, then fast covered in sweat
This man is magnificent, a second round he would surely get
Building toward the climax, someone let out a yell
Passionately they collapsed and onto the bed they fell
 

Side by side, they lay cuddled up throughout the night
In the early morning they awaken due to the bright sunlight
He looked over at this BEAUTIFUL and PERFECT stranger and could not believe what he sees
The prospect of one-night stands a part of this married man’s life, that should not be
All in all, having one-night stands, even occasionally can be dangerous and lead to marital strife
But not for this man, one-night stands are okay, for this stranger is also, this man’s wife!!! 

Written by........Blak2china

The picture of the shortie below is my daughter Jasmine (Jai for short) who is six-years-old. She is GOD’S most precious gift to me. She is not only intelligent and beautiful she is my unsung hero I mentioned above. She keeps me grounded and rooted and always on a mission to better myself. She is the anchor behind the motivation and the reasons why I do the things that I do. She is a very likeable and lovable child. She is the capturer of many hearts. With her wittiness at this age, this will not be the one and only time you hear from this rising sensation. You will have known her here, first. Coming with natural intelligence and amiable qualities puts her in a class all it’s own. Yes, even I am awestruck by her!!!! For I know that, I have been “blessed!!”