Always Find the Lesson

This poem has constantly keeps me in motion throughout my continuous life.

The poet ,writer creator of learning growth with me Nikki Giovanni’s Ego Tripping just an except

Please read it in its entirety to get the complete meaning this is

I was born in the Congo

I walked to the fertile crescent and built the Sphinx

I designed a pyramid so tough that a star

that glows every one hundred years falls into

the center giving divine perfect light

I AM BAD

My oldest daughter is Nefferttiti

the tears from my birth pains created the Nile

I am a beautiful woman

I gazed on a forest and burned out the

Sahara Desert

With a packet of goat’s meat

and a change of clothes -

I crossed it in two hours

I am a gazelle so swift -

so swift - you can’t catch me

For a birthday present when he was three

I gave my son Hannibal an elephant -

He gave me Rome for Mother’s Day

My strength flows ever on

My son Noah built new/ark and

I stood proudly at the helm

as we sailed on a soft summer day

except by my permission

I mean ... I ... can fly

like a bird in the sky ...