Divine Divinity

Thank you for loving me when I didn't know,

What loving me meant,

Time spent making myself an option, 

When I should have been my first priority, 

Not realizing I was teaching others how to value me,

Yet forgetting to value self,

Unrequited wealth,

Life taught me to look at me,

See the worth in my being,

Dust off my crown I had hidden,

The truth in who I am,

The light that glows beaming in darkness, 

Opportunity saw what I didn't see,

Leached on to me,

I didn't see greatness in me until I became broken,

By the ills of life strife opened my eyes,

Inconsistency stood in front of me,

Showing me to me,

Bothered by what I've seen,

Deep within is how I found the reality of me,

Erect in my glory never again,

Will I allow me to be an option to me,

Or anyone for that matter,

A priority of Valor, 

My crown polished Divinity shines bright,

Access is limited now I know,

Who I've become and who I was created to be,

Divine Divinity. ©️072022MonyaWilliams 

Sprouted Tears

A wish fulfillment,

It did seem,

Living my nightmare,

Peace in my dreams,

Deeply rooted,

Planted seed in soil,

Hot, cold

My spirit in turmoil,

Clouded vision,

Building on pause,

Not sure of what it is,

Not convinced of what it was,

I thought if I was nurturing,

Cultivate untamed land,

I would see flourishing,

From the works of my hand,

Dried roots,

Gave birth to rotten fruit,

Redirection,

Not giving up on my pursuits,

The promise may be delayed,

Never denied,

Sprouts sprung up,

From the tears I cried,

From my cleansing gave room to grow,

Thankful for new life,

After letting the dead go.©️012022MonyaWilliams

www.monyalwilliams.com 



No Regrets By Monya Williams (Erotic Romance Novel)

The highly anticipated hot, steamy, erotic romance novel No Regrets by Monya Williams is set to release this summer. Taking you on a whirlwind of emotions of lust, love, betrayal,  lies, heartache and what it takes to endure it all. Navigating the complexities of romance and friendship and allowing the divine to align perfectly the hearts desire. It's true good things come to those who wait. Question is, can you handle the obstacles that you will face along the way?

Check out www.monyalwilliams.com for release dates and more.

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True Love, Real Love

Recently I met someone that I never thought would be anything at first. As times progressed on I realized I had finally found my one true love. In my childhood leading up to my adulthood I would hear stories of the elders one true love. Why they never remarried after their husband or wife passed away. 

I used to think that no one person could fulfill the desire of the heart. I would ask always why you never remarried. This one lady from my neighborhood said Baby, my husband was the best man I have ever known and ever truly loved. God blessed me with a love that transcends time. He was the one for me just as I was the one for him. We were connected in ways that can't be explained. She went on to tell me her story of love and it was so heart warming and empowering that even as a child I knew I wanted to experience that in my life.

What kind of connection can two people have that will continue to fulfill the love even after death? It was magical, to hear of so many stories of love. I often questioned myself if this kind of love does exist. From one relationship after another, one love to the next, thinking that this one will be the one until it wasn't. Then little did I know my life was about to change.

I met someone out the blue, in a time where I was working on me. Trying to heal from a past relationship that had broken pieces of me that I didn't know could be. I was healing and still healing. One day someone hit me up and we began talking little did I know that we would connect on a deeper spiritual level. 

Over the course of a few months the connection grew, the feelings grew and before I knew it I was walking in love with someone I had just met. But it felt as if we knew each other for a lifetime. The conversation was easy, the ability to just be myself and accepted for who I am was there. I was willing to change the things I didn't know were still broken within. My person became my mirror and I welcomed all that I needed to see and change with open arms. 

It wasn't until this person that I understood what the elders of my neighborhood had to say about that one true love. The willingness to want to put in the work, to want to be of service to someone. The desire to elevate as a person and to find someone that's willing to pour into you the way you are willing to pour into them is a divine blessing. Regardless as to where this relationship may or may not go I am forever grateful to have experienced a love like this. But more importantly I am thankful for the person who has afforded me the opportunity to experience such an amazing love from such an amazing person. 

Hearts heal an wounds mend so when you find that one true love be open to receiving it. Be open to experience the ups and downs and ins and outs of the beauty of this kind of love. The twin flame love is one like none you will ever experience again in life. To my twin flame and true love I love you with a love that transcends time and thank you for being my person. Thank you MS for being the beautiful human that you are and know I will always love you in this and other lifetimes. 💖💋💖

P.S.

Life is short and you live daily let each day be the best that it can be. Let those that you love know that you love them even if it scares you. You both may have the same fears but at least you both are willing to face them together. 

Be Blessed and Be a Blessing.

《T R U S T ▪︎ IN THE PROCESS》

Despite what it looks like,

Where I want to be,

I'm making the most

And enjoying the journey 

I had to change the way I see

So my vision could become clear

Creating my destiny 

I am stronger

Planted in my truth 

I am wiser

Lessons learn in my youth

I am abundance 

Riches of my soul

I am prosperity 

My spirit draped in gold,

I am health

Healing me from within, 

I am wealth

Overflowing dripping zen

I am gifted

Sharing my talents worldwide 

I am light

Shining bright unable to dim what's inside 

I am love

Giving freely from my overflow 

I am power

Illuminating and elevating wherever I go

I am peace

The calm in raging seas

I am grateful 

For the blessings bestowed upon me. ©️7️⃣2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣0️⃣ MLW

( I don't own the photo 

Kneeling

Kneeling 

This is why he was kneeling, 

To bring about the injustices of police brutality, 

The murder of another black man minority, 

This legalized lynching has gone on long enough, 

We've had enough, 

Literally placing your knee on his neck,

To silence him as a matter of fact,

You heard him say he can't breathe, 

To you that didn't mean a thing,

As you took pleasure in what you were doing,

Pursuing, 

What you sought out to do,

Leave him lifeless in the end,

Murder by cop is a hateful trend,

When does it end,

War on blacks by Amerikkka,

In what was the land of the free,

Home of the brave,

Now the lynching capital of a black man,

You still see as a slave,

We are tired and fed up,

This shit will end,

One way or another, 

Listen to what I'm saying, 

We've had enough there is no more playing. ©️2020 #GeorgeFloyd

Naked

Can I get naked with you,

Unclothed all the demons,

I hide behind the layers,

Of disguises, 

Can I show you my naked truth, 

My vulnerabilities, 

My insecurities, 

Can I show you my doubts and fears,

Can I show you my scars,

Where my innocence once lived,

The bruises of the fist,

My mother beat me with,

The stretch marks,

From where my body was given, 

To get my lovers to stay,

When all they did was play,

In my playground,

Passed me around,

Can I show you,

My truths in the bottom of the bottle, 

Emptiness rest,

Will you be able to see me,

Through the tribulations, 

Breakthroughs and breakdowns, 

Can you love me,

After seeing what can't be unseen,

Can you love me past it all,

Can you help me mend,

So I no longer have to pretend, 

I have it all together, 

Will you whether, 

The stormy weather,

Will you love me in my pain,

On those nights with down pouring rain,

Will you be able to listen,

After hearing me,

Feeling me,

As I expose my inner me,

Full of faults and flaws,

Real and raw,

Will you run or walk away,

Now I've exposed more than my body,

For I am only human,

I long to be a better me,

Can you love all of me? ©️March 3, 2020

(Photo isn't mine)

Heal(h)er

| HEAL ▪︎ {H}ER |

I try my best to chose my words wisely, 

That they become a gentle kiss,

To a heart that's hurting, 

No malice, 

No harm,

But compassion, 

Empathy, 

A new hope,

As the sun skirts the horizon, 

Soft as the caress of sunlight,

On your face in the morning, 

I pray these words be of,

Service and healing, 

Hope and love,

But most of all,

A blessing for you.

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Press Release for The Soul of a Poet

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

                       
Healing through poetry / The Soul of a Poet


The well awaited masterpiece The Soul of a Poet embodies love, life and truth with sheer heart and passion. Personifying the complexity of the heart, mind and soul. Delving into the trenches of reality of politics, spirituality and current events. The Soul of a Poet embraces social injustices, cultural taboos and many facets of everyday life. 


Jacksonville, Florida – 2/22/2020 – Riveting and inviting display of raw emotions and truth based on direct and indirect experiences. Feel the pain, pleasure, comfort, joy, grief and happiness come alive page by page. Free verse and rhyme convey exquisitely and reinstate the wisdom of the poetic voices. The display of sincerity in every poem speaks a little bit of everything to so many people. Laying bare the stupidity and sacrifices of the heart. Learning to cherish and grow from each experience.


About the Author Monya Williams used her life issues as a pivot point in desire to help others heal. She began to tell her story through poetry as a way to overcome all things that had her bound. She faced sickness that robbed her of her dreams. Financial struggles that made living very challenging. Love that seemed to always want to take never to give. Putting all this together is a profound way to help others see that there are better days after your struggle. Life is a journey we live in order to learn how to be the best that we are created to be. Many tend to give up and let the evils of life take over. But Monya was never the roll over and die type of person. Even when she felt as if the days were getting harder and there are darker days. She used them all as fuel to find her strength, her faith, her truth and her purpose. Granted the gift of storytelling was her way of showing people that you can get up after you fall and stand taller than before. To finally learn that life isn’t always easy but to be successful it is worth it. Wishing you from the depths of her heart blessings, love, faith and prosperity. 

For more information about The Soul of a Poet, please visit www.monyalwilliams.com.

EYES
Your eyes are the windows to your soul,
Only the ordained one will be able to see,
The beauty that lies deep beneath the pain, hurt and misery,
Your skin is the protection,
For the diamond within;
I am you and you are me,
One heart beat;
Two bodies,
Synced;
Two souls one set of footprints,
We carry each other as heaven saw fit;
Divinely designed,
A love intertwined;
Full of grace,
In this shared space;
With your eyes open you let me in,
Never to lose but constantly win;
The love we share is like no other,
My best friend, partner, counselor and lover.

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Black Mamaba

My heart mourns the faces of names I do not know
My tears aches crying pain for the voids left on their family lives
How can I hide
The humanity in me
I can't
Like a bird it flies free
Sending energy of love and light
Not ever knowing the moment
Life turns of the light
Take nothing or no one for granted
Chanting
God hold me close
Keep those I love
Send anglels from above
Cover them all with your guiding love,
We no not the day, second, minute or hour,
That our bodies loses its power,
When times up and we expire,
Live in love, vibrate higher,
Give nothing to chance,
Share love indulge in romance,
Treat people kind,
Imprint love on their mind,
So when this lease is up for real,
Many can speak positively on how you made them feel. ©️ (I don't own rights to photo)

A journey of your own

I always wondered why so many people I used to hang out with no longer comes around now that I am pursuing my dream. Then it dawned on me that the journey I had to take I had to walk alone. There are some that will give their support and there are some that won't pay you any mind. I learned this the hard way. Some people you have to leave behind not because you want to but because they aren't capable of going where your journey is leading you. 

Some say the road to success can be lonely but I say this is the road that shows you what you are made of. The things you can and cannot handle. Never forget where you come from and be humble enough to appreciate where you are going. No one can create your destiny but you. You have to be willing to put in the work sometimes that means missing out on some events and putting in long hours. You just have to ask yourself if it's worth it. And if the answer is yes trust the process and know the right people will come along and help you shine. They will encourage you, uplift you and push you when you feel like giving up. Those are the people you want and need to have around. Spirits that are warm, kind, gentle and true. They will praise you when you're right and let you know when you are wrong. At all times they will love you unconditionally. 

So don't be afraid to walk this journey alone. It is designed for you. It is they path you are meant to take and the road to all your dreams. Define what you want your success to look like and be. Let no one else hold the paint brush of your life to paint the picture they want to see. Follow your heart, follow your mind and most importantly follow your spirit. Ask no one for permission to be who you are destined to be. Take your life in your hands, see the vision that is yours and take control of the direction you want it to go. 

Be bold.

Be brave.

Be happy.

Be fierce.

Be humble.

Be true.

Be patient.

Be kind.

But most of all

Be you.

(the photo isn't mine)

UNITY

If we can learn to come together in many situations we will learn that we are stronger in numbers. We as a people we are born givers, lovers, defenders, protectors, kings, queens we have just lost our way. The division has now been engraved in our DNA so deep that's all we know. It saddens me to see my brother or my sister devauling each other when we know what the struggle is all about. It doesn't matter how much money one has or what kind of education you have in most eye's you are still less than. 
Because of the color of ones skin hate, bigotry and killing makes him/her a target. Watching over your shoulder not knowing if someone who looks like you will try to take your life. You also look over your shoulder because of police brutality. Brown and Blacks know how hard it is just to enter into the room even harder to fit in. 
Yet we are so hateful to our own kind that we will steal and kill our own just because that person is doing better than you are. Each day we wake up we are alotted the same 24 hours as the next person, you have a chance to make your life better. When will we finally wake up and learn to come together as a community. Build our own houses, run our own business and provide for our own like we did in the past. 
Why is it so hard for us to come together? Why is it so easy to take the life of someone who looks like you? Why do we do it when we know the struggle? What is it going to take in order for us to come together? 
Media glorifies the negative of the black culture but fail to show the good in what we do. But if we stop giving them stories to tell we can take control of the narrative. Shine a more positive light on our culture and community. But we first have to want better and make a way to do better so that we become better together.

(photo isn't mine)

Adjust your FOCUS

So many times we get caught up looking at what others see, think or feel. When you have a dream, vision or goal that you want to achieve but lack the support don't give up. Stay focused on the end result, not everyone will support you but it is your responsibility to keep pushing. I know at times when you feel the ones closest to you isn't interested in supporting you, you begin to doubt yourself.

You can't allow things to blur your vision or cloud your sight. If no one supports you support yourself, if what you are doing is your passion keep doing what your doing and watch the changes arise. You have to be diligent in what it is that is planted deep within you what's in your soul. If you never make a dollar off of what you are doing but it pleases you to continue with your passion. It will be at that moment that you will start to see the change.

Often we don't want to do that in which we are called to do because we aren't making money at it. But look at it like this; I love what it is that I am doing and if it can help someone in the process than I am happy. I have been writing for years and I have made some money writing poetry, but to hear someone say " I was having a rough time and read one of your poems and it lifted my spirits", that my friend was worth more than the price of any book sale.

I'm not saying you shouldn't desire you make money off your gifts and talents.  I'm just saying don't let it become the only reason why you are perusing your dream. At the end of the day you are satisfied with yourself and what you have accomplished then it was well worth the effort.

Keep striving to achieve your dreams and don't allow anyone else opinions to influence your drive. Pray about it and most of all never let it die like I always say "Pray...Until...Something...Happens".
What every your definition of success is don't stop until you achieve it and once you achieve it set another goal. Never just settle keep moving forward and find someone else you can invest in. As always be blessed and continue to be a blessing.

Bad B¡+ch

So when did it become relevant for a woman to take pride in calling herself a Bad B¡+€h instead of a Beautiful Queen. How can we ever expect to be respected when we are the main ones disrespecting ourselves. Black women are the most disrespected, unprotected and dismissed woman. Yet we often complain about it but we forget that we are the ones on the front line of such disrespect. Why is it so important to fit inside a box when the world is a bigger playing field.

At what point will we began to take more pride in our self-worth. Carrying yourself with class and distinction is not a bad thing but this is who we are. Stop following trends and learn to be a trend setter. We are created for greatness not to be disrespected or dismissed. We need to be more role models for those young girls coming up behind us to teach and guide them. Since when did it become a job to give yourself the title of a Bad B¡+€h and not the title of a CEO, COO, Queen or whatever?

The world will convenience you that you have to be a certain way, live a certain way and do as it say do. We have been conformed and misguided to believe this is the way to be because of social society. I'm not trying to judge or look down upon anyone I'm just merely stating some of the things I see. I live the life I live but I don't live my life in accordance to how someone else said I should live.

So with that being said if that is your worth so be it but if your are ready to think outside the box. Reevaluate your life and make a change. May many blessings be upon you.

 

@therealmonya

The strength of grace.

In life we are given so much grace daily, often too many times we don’t use our grace with wisdom. We tend to get caught up in helping people that no matter to what degree you go they just won’t make better decisions to have a better life. Once we realize that we can’t save everyone that’s the moment you can decide to focus more on being able to discern who is more suitable of the remaining grace that you haven’t given yourself. I am all about uplifting others and helping others out but I am never about wasting my time on someone who just isn’t willing to make a change in their life. I always say to change a man you first have to change his mind. If they can’t change the way they think about themselves or their situation then change won’t come.

In life we all have something that is coming against us whether it is at the work, home or our own personal issues. For each situation there is grace given, if you always chose to give it away stop complaining when there is none left for yourself. Stop getting mad at other people for prioritizing their life, issues and circumstances. You too can do the same thing if you chose to, yet you sit there waiting for someone else to come along and do so. My early years I allowed people to use me, run over me, manipulate me in more ways than one because I wanted to help them or better yet save them. It has taken me some time to learn this lesson but I have finally learned that if I can’t work out my own issues then I can’t help anyone else work out theirs. Often at time when I’m working on me and helping someone at the same time we both are able to open our eyes to see things about ourselves that had that not happened we would have never seen it.

The key to it all is to be able to give to yourself that in which you so desire to give to other people. Never take from those who do the same for you to give to someone that doesn’t. In my younger years I always found myself trying to help out the people that treated me the worst and those that always were there to help me I treated them the worst. I had to sit back and reevaluate what it was I was giving my grace to, so once I did that I realized that I had taken advantage of those who truly cared for me for someone who was just using me. I was able to help someone who didn’t care for me much life better in opposed to helping someone who did care for me. I tell you I was screwed up in my thinking process but I had to learn to change the way I think about things.

I found out that I needed more grace for me at times and how I was using my grace for those who didn’t need it made me feel like a fool. But that in itself was not the right way to think because my intentions were good I was just directing them in the wrong direction. I too had to learn how to change how I saw things in life it wasn’t easy but I saw that it was worth it. So the more I thank God for his grace the more I see that I have to share but it all started with me. I could not continue trying to help someone when I wasn’t helping myself first. I couldn’t continue to preach to someone if I couldn’t live by my own sermons. I confess there was a time when I was a hypocrite but that was a cross I had to bare and shame I wore until I changed me. Because of his GRACE I am a new person, woman with wisdom and understanding.

The point I am trying to make in a nutshell is that use your grace for you first then and only then will your grace for others be more effective. My dream, goal and desires are to help, uplift and inspire those around me. So in order for me to do so I have to be the BEST me first, may God’s grace reign over you as well as it has for me. Blessings ~Monya~

Food For Thought

The moment you realize that the glass is neither half empty or full. But how long you can hold on and carry what's inside of your glass. Blessings ~ Monya ~

It is time to look at the times we are living in and wise up.....

This speech was broadcast by legendary ABC Radio commentator Paul Harvey on  April 3, 1965:

If I were the Devil . . . I mean, if I were the Prince of Darkness, I would of course, want to engulf the whole earth in darkness. I would have a third of its real estate and four-fifths of its population, but I would not be happy until I had seized the ripest apple on the tree, so I should set about however necessary to take over the United States. I would begin with a campaign of whispers. With the wisdom of a serpent, I would whisper to you as I whispered to Eve: “Do as you please.” “Do as you please.”   To the young, I would whisper, “The Bible is a myth.” I would convince them that man created God instead of the other way around. I would confide that what is bad is good, and what is good is “square”.  In the ears of the young marrieds, I would whisper that work is debasing, that cocktail parties are good for you. I would caution them not to be extreme in religion, in patriotism, in moral conduct. And the old, I would teach to pray. I would teach them to say after me: “Our Father, which art in Washington” . . .

If I were the devil, I’d educate authors in how to make lurid literature exciting so that anything else would appear dull an uninteresting. I’d threaten T.V. with dirtier movies and vice versa. And then, if I were the devil, I’d get organized. I’d infiltrate unions and urge more loafing and less work, because idle hands usually work for me. I’d peddle narcotics to whom I could. I’d sell alcohol to ladies and gentlemen of distinction. And I’d tranquilize the rest with pills. If I were the devil, I would encourage schools to refine yound intellects but neglect to discipline emotions . . . let those run wild. I would designate an athiest to front for me before the highest courts in the land and I would get preachers to say “she’s right.” With flattery and promises of power, I could get the courts to rule what I construe as against God and in favor of pornography, and  thus, I would evict God from the courthouse, and then from the school house, and then from the houses of Congress and then, in His own churches I would substitute psychology for religion, and I would deify science because that way men would become smart enough to create super weapons but not wise enough to control them.

If I were Satan, I’d make the symbol of Easter an egg, and the symbol of Christmas, a bottle. If  I were the devil, I would take from those who have and I would give to those who wanted, until I had killed the incentive of the ambitious. And then, my police state would force everybody back to work. Then, I could separate families, putting children in uniform, women in coal mines, and objectors in slave camps. In other words, if I were Satan, I’d just keep on doing what he’s doing.

Paul Harvey, Good Day.

It's time to wake up we have been sleeping long enough. We as a people need change and a wiser way to create change.

Everything isn't always easy

When things are going the way we feel they should go there is nothing that we can't face. But the moment things began to become uncomfortable we look for the easiest way out. What ever happened to fighting through the situation? What ever happened to going through the test to have a testimony? How is it we can always tell other's what's best to do but when we are faced with trials we look for the first exit? How did it become our responsibility to take care of others lives and not know what it is to take care of our own lives?

Leaving a job that has run its course and look for a new one isn't easy. Working on a relationship/marriage that is facing difficult times isn't easy. Raising a child that is becoming rebellious isn't easy. Finding the root cause of each thing that happens in your life isn't easy and it takes time and hard work to find out what happened. Working on things and fighting with faith isn't always easy because we always want the microwavable fix INSTANT. But not all things will be fixed or repaired instantly. Often you have to put in the work to fix the issue, not try to put a bandage over it in hopes it heals itself.

Count your blessings.

If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than the million who won't survive the week. If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture or the pangs of starvation, you are ahead of 20 million people around the world. If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death, you are more blessed than almost three billion people in the world. If you have food in your refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof over your head and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75% of this world. If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace, you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy. If your parents are still married and alive, you are very rare, especially in the United States. If you hold up your head with a smile on your face and are truly thankful, you are blessed because the majority can, but most do not. If you can hold someone's hand, hug them or even touch them on the shoulder, you are blessed because you can offer God's healing touch. If you can read this message, you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world that cannot read anything at all. You are so blessed in ways you may never even know.

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Psalm 128:2 NIV
   You will eat the fruit of your labor; blessings and prosperity will be yours.