Trust Your Dopeness!

(A Poem by Angela Braxton-Johnson)

Trust your dopeness

When it’s hard to cope and

You feel like mopin’

When you want to get a rope and

Hang yourself out to dry

Just tap into your hopeness

Discern Truth from the lie

Life gets hard, trauma chokes and

We often ask why

No quick answers are comin’

So have a good cry

Breathe deep and just try

To rely on the Christ

The one who’s already paid the price

If that cost seems too high

Or just doesn’t feel right

Consider voicing with me

This new mantra of mine

Discern Truth from the lie

Tap into your hopeness

Trust God

Trust yourself and

Trust your dopeness

Shake the dust off your shoulders

One day at a time

One task at a time

One breath at a time

Go ‘head, drop a dime

Into your treasures of hope and

See your ancestral royalness

Feel the Divine

Piece together your brokenness

As the Spirit gives doses

Of newfound hope and

The essentials of life

Trust

What’s arising... unfolding

Step out of your mess

Trust

Healthy ways of copeness

Already in us

Trust

You’ll survive this test

As your worst brings your best

Trust

Those who’ve crossed where you’ve been

Brought experience to pen

To type, to write

To live in real life

So all day and all night

My new mantra recite

Discern Truth from the lie

Tap into your hopeness

Trust God

Trust yourself

and

Trust your dopeness

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