I Am Great

Javon Goard
May 25, 2021
Photo by Church of the King on Unsplash

I am great.
I am the shine piercing through the dense fog.

I am great.
I am the jewel many seek, but never ascertain.

I am great.
I am the embodiment of love and harmony.

I am great.
They learned how to glow bright from me.

I am great.
I shatter expectations and bust the boxes
people attempt to put me in.

I am great.
I am great because my Black life matters.

I am great.
I am the son of Cynthia, thus my ascension
to greatness is my birthrate.

I am great.
For I have swam in the ocean of self-doubt and
had friends to help me ashore.

I am great.
For I learned that loving thyself is to be normalized,
and not atypical.

I am great.
Because I say so.

Whose next?

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Javon Goard

I am a poet. I am a games researcher. I am a roller skater.