Monarca Rising

Tag: authenticity

  • Truism

    “It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself. If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. If you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy.”– from The Invitation by Oriah Truism…

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  • We

    We by Carmen H Gray What is this place? Seized from its tribal roots Built on the backs of African slaves Japanese Railroad workers Irish street and sewer laborers Mexican laundresses and servants Wealthy babes nursing at the breasts of slaves An amalgamation of colors, languages, foods, beliefs Founding Fathers my ass America was not…

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  • The Lightness In You

    The Lightness In You by Carmen H Gray Out of the darknesses Under the scruff and froth Beyond the bounds of heartlessness Bursts a sanctified and transcendental light It was always there Waiting patiently outside of your line of sight For the greatest depths in this life Are not experienced In the luxurious lack of…

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  • Derelict Child

    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars”-Oscar Wilde Derelict Child by Carmen H Gray I see past the “unloveable” parts Of you I see beauty that resides there I see beyond the poisoned darts I know you have a song to sing To the world To impart…

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