Has anyone ever told you?
Has anyone ever told you you’re beautiful? And have you ever felt conviction gallop like a lump in your throat when they said it? That’s if they ever did? Did you spew it? Or did you regurgitate the words until they became one with your insecurities You...
Beneath The Blanket
So we laid beneath the blanket Entangled in the sheets Heightened in the heat of what we thought was beautiful What we thought was worth it She was a melanin skinned beauty with lips immersed in rainbow The type you would skip a meal for I always fantasized...
THE WALL INSIDE
She sits by the corner Glued to the wall With shame stapled on each drop of tear she ever bled She was always cared of the night time It always felt like a caravan of skeletons reaching for her soul in the dark Those nights, when Daddy subtracted her...
THROUGH MANDELA'S EYES (LONG WALK TO FREEDOM)
Of what essence is life when love is on demise? And of what gain is oxygen when our nostrils are unconscious? Somehow we have become unconscious Cuffed our minds with our own hands We live in a prison called HATE Constructed with iron bars of unforgiveness...
Table for 3
I ordered a table for 3 Me, her and her fears Fear was that one companion she always held onto So portable she never had qualms carrying it along Her fears were full already Already satisfied with the lie that love was a mirage She never got to wrap her...
Just Asking...
Have you ever felt like a waste of breath? Like your lungs were serving a lifetime punishment for a crime they never committed Have you ever felt like your inhale should be repossessed? Like someone else deserved it triple times more than you do Have...
WEATHER FOR TWO
The night was getting darker And her light skin shone like sunlight So bright it lit up the room With everything in it including him The rain had just began to perch on the sun beaten roof Drop by drop till it graduated into unpleasant rhythm And she...
JOY IN JAIL
Your love caught me in the act again Like it always has With both hands soaked in sin Face smeared in the color of condemnation And though I tried hard enough to deny my atrocities like I always did With danger dripping down my finger nails My eyes pleaded...