A poem by-Nikki Giovanni

currently I was searching the web for a poem by Nikki Giovanni.
I found one and this is it.


Balances

in life
one is always
balancing

like we juggle our mothers
against our fathers

or one teacher
against another
(only to balance our grade average)

3 grains of salt
to one ounce truth

our sweet black essence
or the funky honkies down the street

and lately i've begun wondering
if you're trying to tell me something

we used to talk all night
and do things alone together

and i've begun
and lately i've begun wondering
if you're trying to tell me something
(as a reaction to a feeling)
to balance
the pleasure of loneliness
against the pain
of loving you

Nikki Giovanni

Now by redaing this I have come to relize that we do blance things just like Nikki is saying in this poem.The main reason why I fell in love with this poem is because I relate to it.In the first stanza she says "in life
one is always
balancing" and she is completely right,because somebody is always blancing something.In the next stanza she says "like we juggle our mothers
against our fathers" and she is right again and what she is saying is that we compare our mothers to uo father. Weathering its wich one you like better or which one buys you the most stuff.In my case I like my mom more than my dad because she has been in my life longer then my dad has and plus i live with her.
Anyways in the fourth stanza she says "or one teacher
against another
(only to balance our grade average)" and this is true we judge teachers on who is the nicest and how good our grade average is.Instead of looking at the fact how good th teacher is even though she may be tough (Mrs.Chapman) and even though you don't have the best grade in one class then you do the other she still can be as good as all the other teachers she might even care more thats why she is so tough on you she wants you to push yourself.Ok next stanza she sates "3 grains of salt
to one ounce truth" well i'm not very sure what she is trying to say here but i'm sure whatever she is saying is real.In the 5th stanza she says "our sweet black essence
or the funky honkies down the street"and this true (even though she is refering to white people as honkies,but thats ok)we do compare ourself to each others race.
Now in the next stanza she says "and lately i've begun wondering
if you're trying to tell me something" maybe in this she is saying that we shouldn't focus on the negative things in life and focus and the postive things and even though it is not as good as the other thing we should still try in the see the positives in life/things.
In the seventh stanza she says "we used to talk all night
and do things alone together" I think she is talking about a love one that has broke up with her or lead her on to something thats not going to happen.
Fanily in the last stanza she says "and i've begun
and lately i've begun wondering
if you're trying to tell me something
(as a reaction to a feeling)
to balance
the pleasure of loneliness
against the pain
of loving you
" ok this is deep in this she is stating that somebody sent her a sign something like maybe to look on the bright side your world is not over.