If you have lost your way, return home

Study the blueprint for your life

Remember your hopes and dreams

Rewrite the narrative that binds you

Add cherished child, abundantly blessed adult

Erase the spirit of rejection and abandonment

Set aside broken hearts and dashed hopes

Close the door on professional failures and

everything else that is weighing your soul down

Clear the self-defeating clutter from

your mind and return to love; it is the only word

that the universe wrote next to your name.

Poem, the Blueprint For Your Life, is from the poetry book, The Heart and Soul of Black Women, available on Amazon.