Brass Balls

I want to tell you what inspired the poem "Brass Balls" I am the quintessential "nice girl."  Pure Cane Sugar, honey molasses is all a part of my DNA. I have to tell you that at certain points in my life, being a nice girl has really sucked. Why? Well, when you are really nice you get tested more. Some folks think kindness is a euphemism for weakness, but it takes more strength to be nice to people who are complete asses than it takes to get down in the sandbox with them.  

I am and will always be a nice girl, but with life experiences and the school of hard knocks, comes swagger, edge and if you have really been through a lot...brass balls.

The original meaning of brass balls meant that the person drove a hard bargain, but in recent years a second definition has come to mean tenacity and courage. I put myself in the latter category. Sometimes things happen that just make you……um, Grow Some.

The great thing about inner strength is that you don’t have to prove you have it and you don’t have to swing at everything.  You only have one supreme being to prove anything to and he sits on a throne above the clouds.

Over the years there have been many experiences that have, made me wrought iron strong, but at my core, I am still that nice girl and I will never change it.  I have accepted that my niceness is not something I have to cure.

I know God prefers the nice girl he created me to be. And why wouldn't he? That trait makes me look more like him.  So now I am the nice girl with the brass...

I wrote a poem about it, like to hear it? Hear it goes…

Brass Balls

I am a nice girl

Soft,  delicate, sweeter than honeycomb

Don’t let the smooth taste fool ya

I have balls

Big hard brass ones

I wasn’t born with them

But they grew real quick

After life bitch slapped me a few times

I was going nowhere fast

Mad at my present and

Shadow boxing with my past

My Determination and Power

Flies through the air

Like  a Javelin

Im raising the bar

Too high for enemies

to get over

Too low for enemies

 to get under

Swinging Intelligence

Like Nunchucks

POW!!!!!!

Take that

I have big balls

Hold em

Flex my edge

My courage knows no ledge

I put fear in a deep grave

I make my challenges stand back

And  behave

I eat from the plate of righteousness

Until I am full

My tenacity

Is like a pit bull

I bring the bass and the treble

Beyond real

I’m at the next level

Crushing naysayers into a fine powder

My life is music

And I play it LOUDER

I’ve got big balls

And I came to play

Passing you knowledge

Like a relay

Inner strength never grows old

Now watch me stroke these balls

of gold