My Way
Mood:  not sure
Topic: Broken Heart
Who's to say
that things can't change
that the world can't sway
My way

Who's choice is it to make
when you need to save face
need to embrace
My way

Forward yesterday
always in a chase
on the grind to find a solid base
for My way

Are you willing to pay
the price it may take
to keep the bridge without breaks
from My way

It's a constant race
at society's pace
to stay from under the haze
of My way

A needle in the hay
is what this assimilates
is it all worth the wait
for My way

An afterthought of love saved
Remembrance of that dreaded grave
Disillusioned from the gripping pain
of My way

The Truth (Reality)
Topic: Haters
Follow me
back down to reality
let it surround you
and bind you
in the endless ring...
Chase your dreams
and bring them here
and make them
real...
Free your mind
Don't be brought down
by these fools
hatin' on you...
let yourself feel
something real
cause you are
the truth...

Sistah...
Mood:  loud
Topic: Bad Relationships
Sistah, your mind and your heart
need to be cleansed
of that man...

He done chained your soul
to the point you can't let go
and now you're falling apart
all over that man...

Sistah, you been taught
better than that.
You know you ain't supposed
to give in and be controlled
by that man...

His insecurities done run you dry
your well was more than full
now you all outta cries
cause of that man...

Sistah, find yourself
within yourself
before you lose yourself
in that man...

Mood:  irritated
Topic: Broken Heart
Letting go can break your heart
Holding on can break your pride
Moving on can be impossible
When you cannot bridge the divide

Loving him can kill your sanity
Hating him can kill your highs
Forgiving can give him all the right
To keep living in his lies

Pain is not a part of love
and acceptance of second best is weak
Happiness is not overrated
You always have that option to be free

To My Child...
Mood:  lucky
Topic: Children
Nightly as I ly awake,
I long to see your face
and hold you in a warm embrace
It seems so long but I must wait

Trying to imagine what you do
Day in and out inside my womb
I love it when I feel you move
I love being so close to you

My precious child, you'll never know
Just how much you touch my soul
I'm not perfect but even so
I'll do my best to let my love show

You complete our family
I'm ecstatic that God gave you to me
You were a surprise but still you'll be
My special baby for eternity...

For Granted...
Mood:  chillin'
Now Playing: How Come You Don't Call Me (Instrumental) by Alicia Keys
Topic: Inspiration
How often do you take life for granted?
All the wonderful things in it...
the people you love,
the things you enjoy,
breath......
How often do you just sit back and think about
how fortunate you are
to have everything in your life?
What?
What do you have?
LIFE..............
Can you think of just
ONE person who loves you unconditionally?
Just one?
You're doing good.
Can you think of
one friend you can always turn to?
One child you can always hold?
One man you can always love?
One family you can always call your own?
Life is great if you are living it.
Don't let it pass you by...
all the enjoyment,
all the wonderment you have been given...
GRAB it and HOLD it and EMBRACE it for what it is.
There is no one else with what you have....
no one else can be who you are.
No one else can feel you,
can know you...
If you have nothing in the world,
but you are IN the world, life is great...
cause you are here.
So take a deep breath.....
and love it.

Horizon
Mood:  sharp
Topic: Haters
Look in my eyes and tell me what you see
Maybe you should learn to see the world more clearly
Perhaps you need a change of perspective
or even a change of view
The scenery can be smothering
experiencing life while being you
Pessimism and negativity envelope your mind
and you gaze on with a tainted perception
Color the imperfections in a modified direction
and continue on in an unchanged destination

7 Years
Mood:  special
Topic: Love
You have made my life worth living
and my words worth saying.
You've made my job worth doing
and my memories worth saving.

You have given gifts of peace,
love, happiness, and pride
You've given me every reason
to love living my life.

You have given me the love
of three precious children
You've given me courage
and the patience to rear them

You have done more than words
could ever begin to say
and I can't describe the feeling
of the inspiration you create.

I've prayed every night that our love
continues unfolding as sent from above
and each morning I wake to see your face
and I love you more than could be explained.

I thank God to be blessed
to hold your grace so near
and I hope all continues
as these last seven years.

Free
Mood:  down
Topic: Bad Relationships
What does it take to be completely free
from all these weaknesses that overpower me
from gifts that make it hard to breathe
from timeless treasures buried so deep?

Sweet Turns Sour Poem # 172
Mood:  spacey
Topic: Love
When sweet turns sour
Can you get back to that
wonderfully blissful tastiness?
Add a little brown sugar, cream,
and some dark chocolate...
yeah, set it off.

When dark meets light
can't it still hold beauty?
His Africanized, deep brown suppleness
doesn't have to be neutralized...
we can swirl...
and we can make it beautiful.

I don't have to be any less 'me'
and he don't have to be any less 'he'
just because we done turned 'we'
Our cultures, our deepest roots,
and our soul.
Yes... our soul, we intertwine

His soft, brown skin
Oh God it turns me on
Even when I think of all
the wrong he done
It don't matter cause sometimes
sweet turns sour
and you throw it to the dogs
and you start fresh again.

Kathleen JoHanna Robertson

Copyright ©2004 Kathleen JoHanna Robertson

Mine
Mood:  flirty
Topic: Love
Bitter? Who's bitter?
Me?
Well I guess I might be
Sometimes it's lonely
being me

Sexy? Oh yeah you know it.
He's got sex appeal
all over him
like a black god of men-
and he is my weakness

He's got it like Denzel, AI, and Wesley
wrapped up with just a touch
of Malcolm and Dr King
He's my everything
and he does it all so well
pulls it off so smooth
with an intelligence that is oh, so fine

Honor? Oh Yeah he gots that
Right-
Maybe not all his life but uhh
now he wears it like a gun holster
strapped tight across that stacked chest
Mmmhhh.

Mine... Whooo yeah he is definitely mine
He is divine... my own personal blessing
wrapped in honey and coated
with perfection
He makes sweet love
like there IS no tomorrow
but thank Jahova that there is
a tomorrow
cause he always has another chance
to be mine.

Kathleen JoHanna Robertson

Copyright ©2004 Kathleen JoHanna Robertson

The Life
Mood:  energetic
Topic: Haters
It's my life
and I'm gon' live it.
To the fullest...
every time
do what you do
cause I ain't into you
and yo biz like you in
to mine

What's the deal?
You jealous... U-N-V-us?
Are you comfortable wit you?
Are you doin the 'u' thing
like I do this like me?
Cuz I see you ain't feeling it
like u shouldda been
feelin it

If you keep bein like that
you gon' dry up
and shrivle
like a prune in the sun
then what you gon' do,
little California Raisin?
You gon still hate me
for doin what I do?
For bein who I be?
For doin the 'me' thing?

It's my life
and I swear Ima live it
like this...
like that...
like me
doin the 'me' thing

Kathleen JoHanna Robertson

Copyright ©2004 Kathleen JoHanna Robertson

Win By Forgetting
Mood:  happy
Topic: Love
Remembering is easy,
although it's so hard to forget
It's simple to harber emotions
that our memories beget
We are tempted to reinvent the past
inside our hearts at times
However, you win by forgetting
all the negativity in our lives
No one can be perfect
and I never claimed to be
We make mistakes, we pass or take,
and we learn from our own defeats
Nothing that ever has happened
has broken my love for you
If anything, it's stronger
with each day brought anew
Now here looking in your eyes,
my heart is feeling it's so right
I would never let you go
without putting up a fight

Kathleen JoHanna Robertson

Copyright ©2004 Kathleen JoHanna Robertson

*****BARRY ROBERTSON IS MY HUSBAND :)*****

Here's a unit-by-unit breakdown of Louisiana Tech's 2004 class of signees:

LINEBACKERS

-- Quincy Hicks, 6-2, 205, Pearl River (Miss.) CC: Helped Pearl River win Miss. JC state title. Led Moss Point HS to Class 5A state title as QB, LB, FB during junior season.

-- Tim Reddick Jr., 6-3, 225, Belle Chasse HS: Missed senior year with injury. Recorded 94 solo tackles and 60 assists as junior.

-- Barry Robertson, 6-3, 240, Pearl River (Miss.) CC: Played in Miss. JC all-star game. Recruited heavily by Texas A&M and Southern Miss. Outstanding athlete.

The Skinny: Hicks and Robertson will be thrown into the mix right away. Coaches believe Robertson, who totaled 700-plus tackles and 30 sacks in high school, is a difference maker. He will play in the middle along with fellow Pearl River alum, T.J. Jackson. Hicks is undersized, but is quick and athletic. He will provide depth behind Jeremy Hamilton and Byron Santiago and could push Hamilton. Reddick is a gray shirt.

Invitation...
Mood:  happy
Topic: Spiritual
This is your invitation
to take your vision to the top...
share with me my purpose
and fill my eyes with awe.

This is your moment to break me,
and to mold me so I can lift you up...
this is it, now change me.
Help me know your love.

Right now I am calling-
acknowleding that I need some help.
I am not all that strong but my word is bond
and I need some improvements within myself.

This morning I sat and listened
as the congregation AMENed the preacher...
as he told us about his wonderful friend
and revealed His name was Jesus.

He asked us if we know him,
and of course we all nodded yes...
however, the more I thought, I saw
that our relationship could be more expressed.

So I am inviting you to live inside my heart,
if you don't mind.
I probably won't ever reach perfection,
but I promise not to waste your time.

I know the time you've given me
is valuable and is blessed...
and I intend on passing all my blessings
each day to others who feel stressed.

Please use me each day of my life
to further causes of your own...
and help me to realize how you intend
for me to pass these blessings on.

Kathleen JoHanna Robertson

Copyright ©2004 Kathleen JoHanna Robertson

What is Your Purpose?
Topic: Vibing
Do you know what your purpose is for this life?
Have you ever took time out to just think of what you love to do;
what you are so good at;
the gift that God gave you from birth
that makes you chilllllllll when you are so stressed...
and that you can use to escape and hide away from reality
for at least a little while?
My God-given talent is poetry...
and song...
Those are two things that I can get high on
without needing money,
or privacy,
or secrecy...
Two things that can never endanger me,
only free me.
My purpose in this life is to share my gifts
and to explore my talents to my utmost potential;
to use those wonderments that I have been given
in order to make others feel things...
great things;
to let them know someone feels them...
someone understands whatever they are going through.
My testimony through poetry
and through music
is my way of giving back what I gave been given-
a means of comfort.
What is your gift?
Share it.

Kathleen JoHanna Robertson

Copyright ©2004 Kathleen JoHanna Robertson

Untrusting...
Topic: Bad Relationships
She believes the impossible,
relies on intuition
She makes the world her playground
and ignores her own suspicions
She hides from negativity
and feels safety in the night
She crouches until the smoke has cleared
and knows all will be allright
Sometimes, she talks to angels
and she prays with lips apart
Down on bended knee,
hoping God will heal her heart.
Experiences make you who you are
so she is thankful for her own
Even though it's hard to love
a world you've barely known.
Passion is her pitfall
so it's now the one thing that she denies...
Refusal to allow her heart to feel
seems to keep her alive.

Kathleen JoHanna Robertson

Copyright ©2004 Kathleen JoHanna Robertson

YOU!!!
Topic: Inspiration
You are your most precious possession.
Do not ever lose track of you.
People get so wrapped up in others;
in their lovers,
family,
friends,
kids...
in their jobs,
schedules,
deadlines...
that they lose sight of what is important,
what they work so hard for:
their personal satisfaction,
stability,
and happiness.
We tend to forget why we need
what we think we need so badly...
for ourselves.
Thinking of your own needs and desires is far from selfish;
it's necessary.
Love yourself and others will follow!

Kathleen JoHanna Robertson

Copyright ©2004 Kathleen JoHanna Robertson

It's been a long while...
Topic: Inspiration
So it's life, right... nothing you can do about life.
Just live it... or it will live you.
Morgan Freeman said (in character) in Shawshank Redemption...
"Get busy living or get busy dying."
And damnit, I am busy- LIVING!
When you take what you have for granted, it will be lost-
even if only in value, whether it be real or sentimental.
Martin Lawrence claims that people should treat life like a vehicle
and RIDE THIS THING UNTIL THE WHEELS FALL OFF!!!
And he is exactly right...
you never know how much time you have left,
nor do you know how much time you have left with others in your life,
so appreciate your own existence
and show your loved ones that you appreciate their presence in your life as well.
You will be a happier person.

Kathleen JoHanna Robertson

Copyright ©2004 Kathleen JoHanna Robertson

Happiness is a gift, not a priviledge.
Topic: Vibing
Happiness is a gift, given with the deepest of affection
in the utmost extremes of emotion.
Happiness is not a priviledge-
it is not earned...
it is made, or achieved.
Respect is earned;
love is earned...
but once these things are earned,
happiness follows and is achieved.
One need not have another counterpart in order to maintain this happiness...
it can definitely be internal.
Another person cannot make you happy-
you allow your own happiness,
as you allow your own misery, whichever may apply.
However, once you invite happiness
and you embrace the idea of sharing your own happiness with another person,
and welcoming their happiness into your own realm,
mutual happiness has been achieved...
this builds a beautiful friendship.
A relationship that includes a complete bond of happiness is eternal
and cannot be shaken, nor broken...
perhaps bruised at times, but never shattered, and definitely mendable
in the event that conflict arises.

Kathleen JoHanna Robertson

Copyright ©2004 Kathleen JoHanna Robertson