You Can Live Your Dreams

  

Little girl, failure does not have to belong to you.

You can make your dreams come true

I know at times life makes you want to scream,

But don’t give up on your dreams.

It is not true what they say.

Things don’t have to turn out the same way.

So your Mother got pregnant at 16.

You don’t have to repeat that scene.

You can do whatever you want to do.

It’s all up to you.

Little boy growing up in the hood,

You don’t have to grow up angry and misunderstood.

I know your
Daddy spent most of his life in jail,

But that does not mean you have to fail.

The same thing doesn’t have to happen to you.

You can see your dreams through.

Don’t let people mess with your head.

There may be rough times ahead

But don’t give in to anger and remorse.

You can make it if you stay the course.

People will tell you that you can’t make your dreams come true,

But don’t let anyone stop you.

They will try to make you feel like you have no worth.

Remember, they did not put you here on earth

Nor can they formulate your life’s plan.

Your future is in God’s hands.

If your friends try to hold you back,

Start walking and don’t look back.

You can have a future that is bright.

You have to be willing to sacrifice.

Little girl failure is not a fact.

You don’t have to make a living on your back.

Little boy, you don’t have to sell crack.

You can do better than that.

Set your mind on the good.

You can survive the hood.

You can make your dreams come true

Never stop believing in you.

Copyright Patricia Newman-Harris

Part of Collection of Poems Entitled You Can Live Your Dreams

He Knows What Will Be

God knows everything about you.
Everything you will do.
Your successes, your failures,
Everything you will endure.
He knows the tears you will cry.
He knows the reasons why.
God has a place in this world
For every little boy and girl
He's given you a dream that only you can see.
He knows what will be.
He's knows every road block
That will almost keep you from reaching the top.
He knows people will try to convince you
That you cannot do what you want to do,
But you can make your dreams come true.
You will fulfill your purpose in the end.
You might not know how or when.
Just know the day will come
When his will shall be done.
He's already done everything he could
To work things out for your good.
He wants you to have a future and a hope
That is far beyond your scope.
He has instilled in you the passion and fire
To do those things you desire.
He's given you a dream only you can see.
He knows what will be.
God has designed a place just for you.
Has he not said and shall he not do
All that he said he will do?
You've got to believe.
Believe
That you can fulfill every purpose
And every desire he's designed for you.
He can make your dreams come true.
Just run fast, run free.
Run straight into your destiny.

Copyright Patricia Newman-Harris

This poem is part of a small collection of poems entitled, You Can Live Your Dreams
sold on lulu.com.

You Have a Dream to Fulfill

Before you were birthed,

Before God placed you on this earth,

He breathed life into you nostrils and said,

You have a dream to fulfill.

He said, “I will supply all your needs.

You have all you need to succeed.”

He said, “You are mine

You will always shine.”

From the very start,

You were the King or Queen of his heart.

When he breathed life into your being

It was your spirit he was freeing.

God the great designer of your fate

Created you to be great.

Always shine your heavenly light.

Whatever you do, do it with all your might.

Follow his plan

Hold fast his hand.

Allow him to direct your life.

You can do all things through Christ.

He will enable you to do all things,

 Exceedingly,

Abundantly,

Above all you can ask or think.

He will not allow you to sink,

Because, before you were birthed,

Before God placed you on this earth,

He breathed life into your nostrils and said,

You have a dream to fulfill.

Black and Brown

Black and brown

We’ve got to turn this thing around

We’ve got to end the violence.

It doesn’t make sense.

We need to put our differences aside

We don’t have to take sides.

In actuality, we are all warring against violence and poverty

It is destroying all of our communities.

In Watts and in East L.A.,

People are dying every day.

We are all trying to break our fall,

Robbing Peter to pay Paul

Barely getting by.

When it comes to disappointments and heartache,

We have a tie

The hearse rolls through our communities every day.

We’ve got to stop blowing one another away.

We are the ones crowding the prisons and the cemeteries

So why are we knocking one another to our knees?

When it comes to opportunities,
We are all doing without.

We’re in the same bag trying to work our way out.

If you’re looking for a fight,

Fight to turn the wrongs into right.

Fight against your real enemy,

Drugs, violence, alcoholism, substandard schools and poverty.

Fight for programs to keep our children off the street,

Fight for those homeless men and women without food to eat.

Better education should be the topic of conversation between us,

But there can be no discussion where there is no trust.

If we expect to advance,

We both need to be given a fighting chance.

It’s time to conquer the great divide.

Latinos and Blacks need to stand together, side by side.

United, we can stand but divided, we will fall.

It is our call.

In a world that keeps stacking the deck against us, and counting on us to fail,

We can still prevail.

We can reverse the statistics.

Our children don’t have to be gang bangers and convicts.

When it comes to living on our streets, no rules apply

It’s only do or die.

If we don’t want them to succumb to that trap

We’ve got to help them find their way back

By showing that with determination and the willingness to sacrifice,

They can live a purposeful life.

copyright by P. Newman-Harris

They can live a purposeful life.

He Will Take Care of You

When the cares of this world are trying
Never stop trying.
In the midst of our storms and rains
Through our burdens and pains
We've got to keep going
Sometimes not knowing
Where we are going to.
We can make our way through.
Like Shadrach, Meshach and Abednigo
We've got to know
God will never leave us
Or forsake us.
He is always with us.
Just trust
And believe
His blessings are ours to receive.
When there is no reason to praise,
Praise.
When your world is falling apart,
Trust him with your whole heart.
When he says come,
We must come
Even when all we can see
Is a raging sea.
When our faith is tried like never before,
We've got to  be sure,
Beyond a shadow of a doubt
That he is our way out.
The cares of this world can be trying,
But never stop trying.
God has promised and he will do
All that he said he will do
In the darkest hour his light will come shining through.
He will take care of you.

I dedicate this song to the famiily of those whose loved ones were hurt in the Ohio shooting,
And to anyone who is going through heartache and pain.  God knows. (song by Angelo and Veronica).