Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Where Did Our Love Go?

Where Did Our Love Go

We met as teenagers, and fell in love.
You were my Adam and I was your Eve.
You showed me how love was meant to be,
And you captured my love for all eternity.

Where Did Our Love Go?

Sitting here thinking of that first kiss, that first touch,
The very first time our souls touched and we made love.
We were so open, connected, joined at the hip, and drama free.
This was the way that love was meant to be.

Where Did Our Love Go?

Then the whispers came from the outside crowd, and it slowly
Destroyed what was so divinely created….our love.
So we let go…..never knowing if our paths will one day meet again.
Then came the broken dream of you and me raising a family.
How would have one, two, yeah of course three.

Where Did Our Love Go?

Our paths were reunited, and rekindled by true love,
And I was so thankful to the Lord above.
For seeing what I always knew was meant to be.
That I was created for you and you for me.

Where Did Our Love Go?

You took my hand and asked me to be your wife.
And I replied yes
We began our family and had three beautiful kids.
We were one happy family!!!

Where Did Our Love Go

See people this is where the story turns cold and has a drastic end.
It’s when we stop and don’t have to pretend.
We get to take off these masks and really show what’s within.
We get to put up the gloves and fight out in words
Did you know that’s the ultimate sword.


Where Did Our Love Go


A broken heart, a broken dream of you and me.
An image of you wanting someone else,
Brings tears to my eyes, and hit me as a shocking surprise.
That I was no longer the woman of your dreams,
And somehow for a moment you thought she was better than me.
Brother Please!!

Where Did Our Love Go Wrong

Shattered by what was done to me
See I thought it was better if I avenge me
So I did as you did, but I did it better
And trust me, it was an awful mistake.
It taught me that it’s my life I’m putting at stake.

Where Did Our Love Go?

I can admit where I went wrong
If only you would just come and join along.
If I only could only hear you say…
I’m sorry for going astray.
That is when I would look into your eyes and say.
That I never meant to make you feel unwanted, loved, or like a stray.
It was you who I always wanted, your touch that I wanted to feel.
However you made me feel like I did not have that WIFEY appeal.

Where Did Our Love Go Wrong

We now sit here with all these past mistakes.
Crying, laughing, and shaking our head at this thing we call Life, Marriage, and Love
Wondering is this what life really takes.
To put it all on the table and play at such high stakes.
If only we can go undo the past,
So we can make our love last.
Thinking…….
Where Did Our Love Go?

Monday, June 21, 2010

Going Through

In life we all have trials, and even some disappointments. However, I believe strongly that it doesn't matter to me of how it looks in the natural because I have prayed about it in the spiritual....and I know God is working it out on my behalf. WE get so caught up with how things look that we lose focus on what really matters. Sometimes we are only allowing ourselves an side view of our situation, but sometimes we have to get that aerial view for a more precise and clear picture.


Food For Thought......

Remember your situation doesn't take away from whom God is......Because He is the still great I am....


Take God at His word....and continue to speak it to you see it!!!


Stay Blessed

Rikethia L. Clyburn (ThaLyricalDiva)

To All of The People Who Like Crushing Dreams and Being Happy Over Someones Else's Misery

This is for all the people who think they can be happy making someone else miserable or can crush others people dreams. This is even for the people who think they can have what is mine.



Let me break this down.....


You can show up.....you can even show out when you get there. You can stand in the very place that I am suppose to be standing. You can recite my every word. You can steal my ideas, but you can never have what is not righteously yours. If it wasn't destined for you. If it doesn't carry your name, and it has mine all over it...then baby its not yours for the taking.


However Ponder This......


You can stand in my place, but you can't take what God has for me!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Live Long Enough

Live Long Enough


I can remember always spending time with my grandma, and how she was such a humble, loving, and caring woman. I can remember sitting on the side of her bed for countless hours listening to how she came up in life, and how she took care of her siblings and hardly made 3.oo a week. I can remember her telling me how she will give us her last if that meant we didn’t have to struggle.

I can hear softly saying Live Long Enough


I remember watching her straighten her long beautiful hair, and smelling that hot grease burning from the straightening comb. I can remember of how she talked about God, and how He is a keeper, and how He will never fail us. I can hear saying grandma has so much to be thankful for. I can hear her saying Blazer when you gon’ make some of that banana pudding because you sure make that good. I can hear her saying I love you trailblazer, or my nurse kitty. I can recall her always trying to feed me like I was too darn skinny, or saying baby where are your clothes?

But most of all I remember her saying baby live long enough.

Those words are piercing my heart today, and tears are rolling down my face. What I wouldn't pay to hear her voice, get her advice, do her hair, and kiss her on her cheek, and say granny I love you so, but I tell you people

Live Long Enough.....

and you will know how it feels to lose someone you loved.........

It’s sits as a vivid image in my mind slowly coming into play at its own will. I can remember getting her dressed on that day, kissing her on her cheek, and telling her grandma it’s going to be alright. I can remember my cousin washing her and then we both getting her dressed. Oh Lord we had no clue. I can remember the ambulance coming and taking her on to the hospital. It was like one minute everything was going at such a fast pace. I received a call to hurry back, and that’s when my life took a turn and it never stopped turning, because my heart is still aching and burning. I remember holding her hand until her last breath as each family member was there by her side. It was like someone took my very breath, and I am still waiting to breath. I remember looking at all of those faces and seeing the pain, but also seeing their hidden strength.

See this is so vivid to me. It rests on my heart and it pulls at me, to have her not here with me. One minute you can be up, and the next you can be down. So learn to not take life and handle it with a constant frown. Love those who love you and pray for those who speak ill of you, but always take time out to spend with those who hold the history of our ancestors in the palm of their hand.

But I tell you live long enough!!

I can remember when I finally breathed it was when I could feel her presence all over me. It was like I was in Heaven you see. It was just between her and me. It’s like she breathed her life and breath upon me and told me Blazer, I am happy as I can be. So please stop mourning for me, and just be happy that we must one day meet.


~~~RIP Grandma April 22, 2009~~~ We loved you, but God loved you more!!!

To the world's best Mother, Grandmother, and Great Grandmother

Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned

I have learned that some people love to oppose their misery and unhappiness on you.

I have learned that being in love with someone, doesn’t mean they love you.

I have learned that kids are way smarter than you think, and they can pick up on when things are wrong.

I have learned that it’s better to state the facts than to draw a conclusion based off of someone else’s opinion of what they think they might now or have seen.

I have learned that the body will only do what the mind will allow.

I have learned that people will stab you in the back just to have what you got.

I have learned that I can eat just one potato chip and be happy.

I have learned that you can be out of someone’s life for years, and they can appear and those feelings can spring all up over again.

I have learned that excuses are just a way of saying, “I didn’t do it.”

I have learned that past hurts not dealt with can destroy your present and your future.

I have learned that we hide behind masks to cover up our real issues,problems, and skeletons.

I have learned that just because someone hurts you, it don’t give you the right to do the same to them.

I have learned that a simple Good Morning can brighten a friend’s day.

I have learned that it’s the simple things that count, but go un-noticed.

I have learned that family will hurt you more than anyone else.

I have learned that when times get tough and you need someone, they will never show.

I have learned that this world is cold and full of greed.

I have learned that you can accomplish more by being positive than being negative.

I have learned to spend as much time as you can with your children, because they grow up fast and you can’t go back in time.

I have learned to live for today, because someone didn’t get the opportunity to.

I have learned that we all have gifts, but we have to examine ourselves to see what they are.

I have learned that staying together for the kids is the worst thing you do, because it ends up hurting you and them because they know you are unhappy.

I have learned …… I am so thankful…… I have learned

By Rikethia L. Clyburn aka ThaLyricalDiva

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Tha Lyrical Diva


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Tha Lyrical Diva


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I Am More Than What You See

Can you look past the beautiful smile and captivating eyes?
And stop hitting me with those same tired ass lines. Baby You So Fine!!
Hmmm maybe I’m asking for too much and laying It to thin.
By asking you to see me for the beautiful woman I am within.

I am more than the curve of my hips, and
the upward smile of my lips.
Yeah Boo I am not your ordinary chick..
You can’t just show me some picture and whip out your di--.

You can’t approach a woman any kind of way,
Thinking you going to receive some type of quick lay.
You better learn to step your game up,
Or you might just get trumped.

So come correct, or don’t come at all,
Because baby even humpty dumpty had a great fall.
So when you are ready remember……
I have words and rhyme that can stimulate your mind.
Take you beyond the natural eye, and have you hypnotized.
Have you begging for more as I spit rhyme and reason.
Taking you through all the four seasons.

So see I am more than a beautiful smile and some captivating eyes….
Beyond these eyes is where the real truth lies.
Baby I am the pen pusher of words, truth, and reason.
I am the kind of woman that will have you coming back in and out of season.


This is how I stimulate the mind and leave a little something behind.
To let you know women are more than a picture and a status line.
They are beautiful, intelligent, and divine
So if you can’t be real do us a favor and don’t even waste our time.
And let me leave you with this hardcore line.
We are not your baby, mami, cutie, sweetheart or dame..
We are women wishing to simply be called by our birth name.

Written By: Rikethia Clyburn aka ThaLyricalDiva March 16, 2010

I Want You To Indulge Yourself In Me

I want you to stroke my mind with dreamy thoughts of you. Stimulating my inner most desires of Pure Seduction. Learning the things that keep my flame luminated.

I Want You to Indulge Yourself In Me

I want you to gently kiss my beautiful luscious lips and not just imagine the movement of my round hips. I want you to take my bottom lip and bite it seductively while grabbing the back of my neck and whispering……I want more.

I Want You to Indulge Yourself In Me

I want to feel your breath upon my nipples as you begin to gently suck on them…..oh and occasional bite or two showing me the rougher side of you….making my nipples get harder…harder with the trace of your tongue. I Want You to Indulge Yourself In Me.......I want you to kiss my nape of my neck and move slowly passionately, seductively down my back leaving traces of your wet kisses.

I Want You to Indulge Yourself In Me

I want you take my legs and spread them apart kissing them up and down giving both of them equal pleasure until you hear me say, “I want more” However not giving in to my words of pure ecstasy.


I Want You to Indulge Yourself In Me

I want you to explore my chocolate dome where all my love roams. I want you to make my heart skip a beat, my body quiver, and my lips shiver as though I am in a winter’s storm. I want you to let me have my ultimate release, let my cup runneth over with memories of our first encounter. I Want You to Indulge Yourself In Me


Written by: Rikethia L. Clyburn aka ThaLyricalDiva 4-7-2009

Pain Behind The Brown Eyes

Can you see the pain that lies behind these pretty brown eyes?
Pain of love, heartache, let downs, and constant lies. I remember the broken promises and always waiting Countless hours for you to show up, and nothing, I had to
Watch my mother hurt because her baby girl was hurting. I had to
Watch her beat herself up over choosing such a sorry ass man to lay down with and
Procreate with. Looking through her eyes she thought she thought you was a better man than what she had been shown before. However you were a letdown a disappointment a reason for a broken heart and a failed marriage. It took her years to gain her confidence back and stand correct and represent as a strong black mother raising her daughter all alone. Never did she ever put you down or paint a bad picture of you. She left that for me to grow and see. I remember the doughnuts for dad at school and never having anyone to show up. Thinking in my mind what did I do wrong to deserve such pain, constant lies, and broken promises? I can remember the waiting and the waiting and mama saying maybe something went wrong again taking nothing from your character. She was such a strong woman although she was so broken. It took years and years for me to see you for who you were and not to blame myself for having such a selfish father. A man that is incapable of loving, telling the truth, and being a great dad. I had to come to terms that you are liar, an ingrate, a lonely man that needs so much prayer sent up, because a man that doesn’t take care of his own is like an infidel. So I pray for you daily that you get it together and seek forgiveness not from me but from my true Father above. That is so capable of showing you how to really love. As I realized at the age of thirty three that God had to take you away from me, because I wanted a dad so bad that I would have put you before I put him and see to me that’s the ultimate love of a Father. So I come today with my head held high taking pride in being a strong black woman that has had some pain behind these pretty brown eyes. So I thank you for helping me to always be the strong black woman I was destined to be. Who is never ashamed to admit where she’s been, or where she’s from, or what things I have been through in life. Cause you see that’s the pain behind these pretty brown eyes.

Rikethia L. Clyburn aka Tha Lyrical Diva
June 12, 2010

Absence Of A Father

Dedicated to the all the little girls in the world……..

My heart yearns for my father’s embrace, or to hear that’s daddy’s little girl. Or his words of encouragement telling me, baby girl you can do it, or baby you deserve so much better. I too had the fairy tale dreams of the white picket fence and my mother and father together, but it was shattered. I often would sit in the hall or look out the window just thinking he would re-appear and say baby girl daddy loves you and I miss you. Well, that day never came, and it left me with a huge void and a very cold heart towards men for a long time. It wounded me, damaged me, and almost took over me. Then I looked over and saw this strong woman next to me…..and she was my mom. She instilled in me great things, and always insured me of my worth. So I took my circumstances and made them my stepping stones never to use them as excuses but lessons learned. I learned that I won’t settle for anything, and to only accept the best. It left me independent, a hard worker, and a great mother. So this poem is for all the little girls lost, the ones who feel a void, or feel they did something wrong, the ones who replace lust with love, the ones who was told you made your daddy leave, the ones who were told he ain’t yo daddy anyway, or you ain’t shit just like your daddy, or you aren’t going to amount to anything, the ones who were abused and taken advantage of, and the ones who heart aches and yearns for a father. I tell you that you too shall become a strong woman, a woman of courage, independent woman, a great mother, a wonderful entrepreneur, and when they look at you they will see nothing but a Phenomenal Woman….a woman of Great Substance and Value…..and then this is when you will realize that it took all of those things to make who you are, and even though your heart craves for that absent father. You can find Peace and then you can tell the world “Circumstances may delay you but they cannot deny you.” So go out and shine my little girls…….in spite of the absence of a Father.

Written By: Rikethia L. Clyburn aka ThaLyricalDiva
10th, February 2010

I Wonder

I WONDER

I wonder how it would be to dream with you…….make plans with you……..create a life with you…

I wonder how it would be to be married to you……..love you…….have babies with you……

I wonder how it would be to live with you…..come home to you….cook for you……..feed you…..

I wonder how it would be to call you……….talk to you…..laugh with you………hang up on you………

I wonder how it would be to fight with you……….cuss at you…….damn make up with you…then fuck you

I wonder how it would be to like to undress you…….bathe you……dry you………lotion you

I wonder how it would be to feel your lips against mine……biting you…….licking you……tasting you

I wonder how it would be to feel your body pressed against mine……..squeezing you...simply holding you

I wonder how it would be to just make love to you……..touch you……….tease you………cum with you

I wonder how it would be to wake up next to you…….smelling you……….loving you……caressing you……..

I wonder how it would be to make you want me….. Only me……and no one but me………

I wonder………….I wonder………Yet I Wonder………

Written By: Rikethia L. Clyburn aka ThaLyricalDiva
10th February 2010

You See My Face, My Eyes, But Do You Know My Heart

I often lie alone countless hours pondering if this is the direction my life must go in, one that gives love, but in return receives not even a carbon copy.

You see my face, my eyes, but do you know my heart?

Do you know the sensation of sitting in a crowded room, and still feeling so absolute, so transparent? Can you imagine seeing lips moving upward and downward, but to your surprise no emotions, no love behind the words that are being spoken just simply people going through the motions of what seems familiar or seems just right.

You see my face, my eyes, but do you know my heart?

I waited patiently as a butterfly for something or someone to become accessible to my heart, my soul, my spirit, and mind. However I was left destitute and alone. Not poor from worldly things or material things but robbed of true love and of my true self.

You see my face, my eyes, but do you know my heart?

Then without reason or no particular season you entered my life. It was at the most divine time, when I needed a friend, and just an ear to hear me. You sat still as a mouse not whispering one word, but your eyes were piercing at my every thought and clutching onto my every word. You activated this secret emotion within me, which I thought was once lost. You ignited this fire that I allowed to be smothered by someone who was so incapable of knowing a great woman that stood before him.

You see my face, my eyes, but do you know my heart?

I took of my masks before you and showed you my pain, and hideous scars, but you only saw my true beauty that radiated from within. You told me to show the world my true scars, because it was time to embrace them. You showed me what a true man and friend should be. You told me that he should always be an addition and never a subtraction taking away from who I really am. He should always remain strong never ever let me think I have sold myself short. He should reassure me every day that I’m Blessed Coming In and I’m Blessed Going Out, and He’s Blessed For having me. These eyes that seemed lifeless at one point with the disappointment of life trials are now beaming brightly with expectations of what extends from this new fond relationship of friendship. As day arises, I am eager to hear your voice, see your face, and get a sniff of that Dolce Gabbana. What the eyes have already glanced at, the heart has already felt I was taken in by your intellect and your beauty, but your heart surpassed the two.

You have seen my face, my eyes, and I have now revealed to you my heart?

“It is hard to want something and to know that it surpasses being good for you, but not to be able to reach out and grasp it. It is the most profound measurement in this world of friendship and love?” By Rikethia L. Clybrn

Rikethia L. Clyburn aka ThaLyricalDiva
March 22, 2010