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  Melina Billups    

    Welcome , this website gives you the opportunity  and chance to enter into my domain.  I hope you enjoy viewing it as much as I enjoyed creating it. Please always remember that the only goal that is impossible is the one goal that you never attempted to accomplish. Never let go of your dreams!

 

                

 

   Ego Tripping (there may be a reason why)
                          

I was born in the congo
I walked to the fertile crescent and built
 the sphinx
                  I designed a pyramid so tough that a star             
                    that only glows every one hundred years falls                       
  into the center giving divine perfect light
                             I am bad                                                          
         

I sat on the throne
   drinking nectar with allah
                             I got hot and sent an ice age to europe                                 
   to cool my thirst
My oldest daughter is nefertiti
   the tears from my birth pains
                                created the nile                                                 
I am a beautiful woman

I gazed on the forest and burned
                                out the sahara desert                                            
   with a packet of goat's meat
   and a change of clothes
I crossed it in two hours
I am a gazelle so swift
   so swift you can't catch me

   For a birthday present when he was three
I gave my son hannibal an elephant
   He gave me rome for mother's day
My strength flows ever on

My son noah built new/ark and
I stood proudly at the helm
   as we sailed on a soft summer day
I turned myself into myself and was
   jesus
   men intone my loving name
   All praises All praises
I am the one who would save

I sowed diamonds in my back yard
My bowels deliver uranium
   the filings from my fingernails are
   semi-precious jewels
   On a trip north
I caught a cold and blew
My nose giving oil to the arab world
I am so hip even my errors are correct
I sailed west to reach east and had to round off
   the earth as I went
   The hair from my head thinned and gold was laid
   across three continents

I am so perfect so divine so ethereal so surreal
I cannot be comprehended except by my permission

I mean...I...can fly
   like a bird in the sky...

Author: Nikki Giovanni