Anna Mina

"There shall come a time where difference is only a word"   When one has been down in a hole The only way is up! When one has been sad, When things happen, Which are out of our control.   Then it is time To stand up, To fight To win To conquer To walk proud!   To be all you can be, To know and to feel To know in your heart To trust in yourself.    The only way is to take initiative. The only way is to break the habit. The only way is to stop hiding. Hiding from yourself Hiding behind shadows,  Behind a cloak of despair. We should learn to embrace life. When we learn to love who we are, Exactly the way we are, We shall discover peace, Tranquility, Stillness, "Why me" is a dead end statement A road to nowhere!   Start living Go ... wash up! Stop complaining. Life is a breeze. The cards, are in your hands.   When you "think" like a victim! You become, a victim.   If negative thinking ain't working Remove it from your life. For us baldies" Shut up Stop whining Stop whingeing Stop complaining. Stop crying. Wake up!   It's not growing any time soon It is out of your control!  So stop wasting time Get a life! What have we got to lose ... certainly "NOT HAIR"   ...

As the Tears Run Down My Face I say Who do I see looking back at me?I don't know who "that girl is"I don't know if it is me.The Girl in the MirrorLooking Back At Me! Does she smile,Or does she cry,Does she wishDoes she wonder why? Or does she tell the Girl in the Mirror, It is only I!    I have no face,I can't see me.I have not changedI just want to be free,I want to be me! "I am" the Girl in the Mirror It is only I! It's so simple "can't you see" That the girl in the Mirror is Me!          ...

Shadows Of the past Encapsulate,  Buried into a capsule Deep below the realms of ones core.                                        Lingering memories capture my thoughts Fluttering emotions swaying in the wind, Tapping on heartstrings of grief Accompanied in anguish and pain. Isolation can diminish ones worth Swallowing the essence of who we were, Of who we are.Pondering Thinking about life's adversities Complexities, where in contrast spell out inane sufferings  Senseless Struggles Waste. Never allowing hardship to consume my willReflecting, as I fall into another time Another place far from this reality I call today,Wandering the corridors of my tormented soul Memories become branded in my mindSlowing down the movie as it plays frame by frame.Spiraling downward into a well of despair With harrowing pain, I sink into the endless abyss.The smell of chamomile The delicate scent of carnations Throwing my mind into a flurry of dreams,Oh what a Blunderer I have been Subjecting my human rights to the unforeseen.Racing along the endless passages through time Dreams shattered, Fragmented so fine.Throwing Tempestuous moments In an array of Scattered Events Dwelling deep within the desert of my soul, Hiccups of Life Transparent as time slips away.Loves intense grasp immersed Unnurtured Unfulfilled Thus forgotten.Optimism courage, and the fight to thrive The fight to survive strengthened Obtainable, and imaginableTo achieve the ultimate  The utmost The inconceivable.Adjacent all of our innate hopes and dreams evolving Diving into a new world where all is possible. Beauty Intrigue  Fervently defining...

Being a Bald Woman during the 80s was very different, than today. Hard renting homes to a "bald person like you".  People like me without hair! Yes "bald people like me". I heard the same insult numerous times throughout the years. Each time it came with another face and another reason. The ignorance was the same no matter where I went. In the USA or overseas. Confrontations and negative responses became continuous on a daily basis. Catching buses or cabs was an event in itself, being hollered at with profanity. I was attacked in taxi cabs and driven off my destination. Approached by men who asked me "What are you, a man or a woman?" Even had police order me to get off the street, or go put something on your head. Saying "you are attracting too much attention and disturbing the peace". Wouldn't get served in restaurants or stores, so I had to speak up! Always under surveillance by security guards in malls who were tailing me ... waiting with police vans. Warned that I'm being watched. Had Soda and trash thrown over me from passing cars as I walked with my kids or stood waiting for a bus. Had an entire bus load of passengers along with my kids and my brother detour off rout and driven to the police station. Being dragged under my arm off the bus by a police officer. Later on received regretful apologies from the head of police. Not to mention cars trying to run me down while crossing the road...