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Thank you for your hate
It just made me love harder
Thank you for your doubt
It just gives me more fuel
To overcome these obstacles
And show you who’s the fool
Thank you for your negativity
It just builds for my success
Thank you for your lies
That just brought the truth to light
Thank you for the heartaches
It just made my skin thicker
Thanks for the betrayal
That made me take a second look
And understand the reality that you
Were never a real friend in my book
Thank you for your envy, jealousy and rage
You just let me know you’re not content
Within yourself
Maybe you should do you
And not somebody else
Thank you for those who said
That I was nothing
Pay attention, you got a customer
In the drive through coming
The same things you thought
Would drown me are keeping me afloat
The rocks you threw to crush me with
Are now my stepping stones
All you did was show me how
To survive in a den full of snakes
The victory wouldn’t be as sweet
If it didn’t come with a little pain
Thanks for showing me the way…..


Superb “Lemons to Lemonade” insightful revelation!
Thanks, that’s exactly what I was going for with this one! Glad you enjoyed it!
How wonderful to see a very handsome black man writing with such passion…I love your poetry. I am also a poet.
Thank you Jaylaa!! I appreciate it and thanks for stopping by my site. Feel free to post some of your work as well.