You Are the Water
By Sha Rene'

My Thoughts
I write to feed my soul. I like to go to another place that I cannot physically touch. When I write, I have the chance to explore another realm of existence. I place myself in another person's shoes and I try to see the world through their eyes. I started writing poetry and music at 10 and it was out of the desire to speak out. My life in the 60's was a neighborhood life. Our existence here is and now determines how we relate to each other. I would sometimes write words that were musical and other times these words would stand on their own. My goal is to spread a message throughout the world of freedom and just being or experiencing every day life. I show this by sharing my life. It is my desire that whoever reads my words will be inspired as well. I specifically write with my vision through an African American eye because of my desire for our people to have a kinship."

"You are the Water," is a response to the poem entitled "You Are Not a Tree," by Blis. The vision I received made me realize what you can be, such as water. Readers of the poem asked me if this was about my life. When I write sometimes it is about my life but with words I am able to place myself in another woman's shoes and feel life inside me such as the water. In my book, "Words Can Explain," I have similar works where I may describe a broken African American household. Although my African American household was not broken, I can sympathize with the experience and use my words to create a vision. The imagery here to me represents the movement of life in a form that typically goes unnoticed. It is the rain that gives us this life and flows though the atmosphere that man has altered. With this, there is eternity.