In the Words of My Life

By Deborah Reid

This book was also a dream of hers; not to be famous or to sell a million copies, but for the purpose of having something for the generations after her and those closest to her to share and reminisce. The inspiration for this book is for those that miss her more than she will ever know. She was taken from us way too soon, but her words can live on through this book...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Sep 23, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669846048

Deborah Reid

Deborah Reid was born on May 21, 1957, to her parents Irene Nelson and Murkland O'Kelley. She grew up on the Northside of Pittsburgh around family and friends. She was the first person in her family to attend college and got her associates degree in Applied Science from the Community College of Allegheny County in 1991. She married Glynn Reid on November 6, 1982. Together they had three sons; Jamar Maurice “Shittle Boy”, twins Joshua Martel “Smoogie” and Justin Marcus “Kissy Face”. She also had four grandchildren. Deborah had a handful of things she loved; from going out on one of Pittsburgh's riverboat cabarets to playing her daily and evening lotto numbers with scratchies to racking up some money on penny slots at the casino to hosting cookouts for family and friends to playing Tiger Woods on Xbox 360 to playing cards including bid, whist and spades. Lastly, she loved talking on the phone to anybody, especially her sister, Lynette Devers better known as “Agnes” only to her sister Deborah was a beloved wife, mother and grandmother and like family to just about anyone she knew. This book is her life in poems, in her words, through pain, joy, struggle, and perseverance.

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Rev. date: 09/23/2022

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CONTENTS

To The People

The Rainbow of Life

The Cost of Living

I Got The Will

The Mind

No Turning Back

Soap Operas

Happy Birthday To Me

To A Woman

To a New Beginning

A Dream

Love Can Never Be Captured

The Way Things Ought To Be

What Love Has Joined Together

How Do You Feel About Me?

Message to Love

That’s Why This Can’t Be Love

We Were Meant For Each Other

Understanding One Another

The Shadow of Love

Summer Love

I Who Want to Love

A Dream of Reality

If You Can Dig This

Sharing For One Another

To You With Love

Whatever Your Needs Are?

You Made Me What I Am

You’re The Picture

My Dreams Are Yours

Nothing Takes the Place of You

So True, So Blue, But No You!

Understand Me Black Man

When There’s No One To Love

What Is This Called

The Super-fly Bag

Hey Black Brothers, Come Down Off Your High

Make Up For Lost Time

Brothers, Brothers, Brothers!

I’m Calling on You?

From Woman to Man

The Promised Land

Misery!

Afraid To Live, And So Afraid To Die!

Tomorrow Promise!

I Just Want My Freedom

My Life

Farewell My Love

For My Love 6-4-92

Passion Flower

My Friend

Don’t Blame Me!

Making it Better

Life Goes On

Crush Groove

Poison Veins 3-13-91

I Love You

Tear Me Down

Dream Come True!

King of Hearts!

Sympathy

God Almighty

Then Let It Go!!! 8-10-91

Break-Down 7-17-91

Secret Love 7-25-91

Haunted Dreams 7-13-91

Tonight 7-11-91

Separated From The Rest (unfinished) 4-14-91

Valentine of my Soul

When I Pray

Burning Desire 8-18-91

Love Potion

A Midnight Letter

Now And Then 9-3-92

2-Kool 8-19-92

Silent Prayer 9-29-93

Not The Same 9-29-93

A Questionnare?

Grow up Little Boy! 10-2-93

From the Bottom of my Heart 10-8-93

The Danger Zone 10-12-93

Sincerely Yours 10-26-93

T.I.G. 10-12-93

Unconditional Love 10-30-93

Give My Love a Try 8-9-98

I am a Victim 7-19-93

Another Emergency 11-3-93

Do You Know Him 12-29-96

I Thought You Knew 5-16-08

I Love You a Thousand Times 2-23-96

Looking Glass 2-4-92

Desert Storm War!!!

Love Letter

Jamar Maurice, Jr.

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To The People

To the people who don’t know me well,

Can you judge me and have the right to tell

Others about me who look, and observe,

Misjudging people takes a lot of nerve,

To the people that can really see,

The value of life has its variety,

To each its own to search, and to find,

To take care of yours and not worry about mine.

Whatever it may be!

The Rainbow of Life

Love, is red, for its heart to give to me as a work of art,

Understanding, is yellow, for its brightness to understand the meaning of happiness,

Trust, is green, for its inspiration to trust you with my thoughts of deep meditation,

Faith, is orange, for its warmness to accept from me for my forgiveness,

Affection, is purple, for its deepest, to cure my emotions, for its highest,

Competition, in pink, for its togetherness to block out the loneliness,

Hope, is gold, for its gratitude to have, and to hold, with no attitude,

Patience, is brown, for its solid grounds to depend upon it never let it down,

Problems, is white, for its only natural to be to the best of my knowledge, it’s a mystery,

Black, is the beholder, for all sorrow, the rainbow of life, is for today, yesterday and tomorrow

Eternity, is blue, for its forever to rest in the land of never, never.

The Cost of Living

Prices outrageous, money can’t buy

The cost of living, is gone sky high

Workers, are working, to earn some dough

The cost of living, is just a blow,

Foods, and meats, at the grocery store

The cost of living, is higher than before,

You need a million dollars, just to shop

The cost of living, ought to stop,

The more money you earn, the more you spend

With the cost of living, you just can’t win,

People are begging, for the welfare line

With the cost of living, is blowing your mind,

Food in your mouth, or no clothes on your back

The cost of living, is just a heartbreaking fact,

People are stinking, for they have no clothes

The cost of living, supply none of those,

For you can’t even buy, yourself a friend

The cost of living, need to come to an end,

People are dying, just don’t want to see

That the cost of living, is reality,

The rest that are living, have swollen heads

Because, the cost of living, is killing us dead.

I Got The Will

I know it’s a hard struggle from the people I got to