IN YOUR OWN WORDS SELF, THANK YOU FOR LOVING SELF BY RAELENE JOHNSON, VOICE VENDOR WHY HOMELESSNESS HAS EXISTED FOR SO LONG BY REA BROWN, VOICE VENDOR VALENTINE’S DAY POEM BY KENDELL CLARKE, VOICE VENDOR RAELENE JOHNSON. CREDIT: CORTNEY TABERNA REA BROWN. CREDIT: GILES CLASEN SELF, THANK YOU FOR LOVING SELF! When Self doesn’t love Self, we let others do wrong to Self. Self, you finally found Self. Before finding Self, you let people walk all over you! Before Self knew Self, Self was very lost. Self didn’t know how to stop the abuse. Over time, the only thing Self knew was pain and couldn’t find a way out. Why did this or that happen to me? Why do they cause me pain? Questions that keep you stuck in pain. That pain can last for years until Self steps up for Self and wants the pain to stop. Self must start to love Self. Self must speak up so everyone knows, “You can’t talk to me that way. You can’t use me anymore!” Speak up and show love to Self. When you stop letting bad things around you, then you can start to love Self. Over time, Self will find Self, and then, Self will find peace in Self. When Self has found love and peace, Self will live a happier life. February is the month of love, so truly love Self because if Self doesn’t speak up, you will be lost. Thank you, Self, for letting me find my Self. Self, now we have found real love and peace in Self. May you find your true Self, and give it love, and find peace. ■ The following is a poem that Rea Brown wrote in response to the question he suggested for this month’s Ask a Vendor: Why do you think homelessness has existed for so long? Because there was no space in that column for his response, we are including it here: IT’S AMAZING, to say the least, wickedly nonetheless, that such a thing should exist on a planet so blessed. I ask How can Africa have poverty bleeding diamonds forever, year-round good weather with gold and historical pleasures. Yet poverty has continued so long? From the richest to the poorest country, it’s all the same, weak or strong the blame falls on the grown, as well as the child and has carried on from the first man until now it’s wherever in man selfishness found all those years and it still drags us down it’s crazy how much it is true it’s like the ancients knew when they made the golden rule do unto others as you would have them do unto you ■ KENDELL CLARKE. CREDIT: JUSTIN CANELAS SWEET SUGAR, add a little lemon lime for my valentine. Right on time beneath the sunshine. Bright or dark wine, depending on the circumstances of a treasured time. Sharing your heart with the intentions of being smart, Optimistic of the bridge, which is built on a solid foundation of two equal parts, never to depart Cheers. Glad everyone’s happy and yelling loud Cause someone must have let out a silent fart Even the dog was smart to bark! ■ WE MOVED! 12 DENVER VOICE February 2021 Our vendor offi ce is now located at : 989 Santa Fe Drive Denver, CO 80204 We are still settling into our new Denver VOICE office at 989 Santa Fe Drive. When it is safer to gather in large groups again, we hope you will stop by and say hello!
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