This Is She

Scared to Succeed   With the help of my mother I have come to the conclusion that I am scared to be successful. I have always been the straight A student, honor roll, perfect attendance. Accused of plagiarism because my writing has always been immaculate and before its time. I used to imagine my life on book tours signing my first book for my fans that were touched by the story I shared with them. Til this day I still imagine it. I look on TV and see the celebrities that I watch faithfully enjoy their time on the camera and I realize, they are already successful. Makes one wonder how many of us, just like me are doing the same thing. Every Monday night when we sit down faithfully to watch "Love and Hip Hop" or Wednesdays when we watch religiously "Empire". How many of us do that? And how many of us do that before we take the same time out to pay attention to our own selves? Does anyone ever stop during the ratchet hours why we do this? Why watch on cue people wh...

Introduce yourself he says, this is me I say. The beautiful black queen is finally here. Coming to you like a dream that you've heard of but have never seen. Shay the great because I've always aimed to be great. The writer, the mother, the daughter, the sister. My passion lays within me ready to be free I'm hoping to one day go on tour and sign millions of copies of my book or poems I've published for those girls who never had a father. Or those boys who never had a chance. That's who I'm writing for. I'm independent. A journalist. Speaking out on what everyone else is so afraid to even say aloud. That's me. This is she. I am her. Shanaythia. Now introduce yourself to me, who are you?