I’m in school to be a teacher, but I think I’m better off an architect You see, walls are my specialty I create them Whenever I feel anything, I strategically, summarize and sway my mind into shape shifting shallow emotions into strongholds of steel Just in case someone is trying […]
Luck | Freewrite
After us, I’d say, I’ve given up on love & all my friends think I’m playing I’m just saiyan my heart ain’t nowhere close to go through some hits goku threw Again It’s this whole complicated process of trusting someone with the semi likely possibility things may or may not […]
Silent Emotions
The silence here is deafening Paradoxical, I know This void in your presence is still hard to swallow I expect you around every corner I’ve grown to do things here with your mannerisms and actions in mind But time brings me back to reality The table I must sit at, […]
4/30 National Poetry Day | Untitled
Somedays there are breaks in my strength Breaks in my need for solidarity I don’t feel comfort in silence but plagued in it Plagued with the undeniable vagueness that trancends the message, I’m okay But am I?
3/30 National Poetry Month | Unwifeable
They like to portray women as sweet innocent beings When sometimes we are as rugged as a treacherous mountain can be We are like vines that en strangle passerby’s And trees that shed poisonous leaves Sometimes I admit, we like to look more fragile than it seems Because society and […]
National Poetry Month 2/30 | Coffee
“What does it mean to be black?” “How does it feel to walk in your skin?” “What do we go through as people that is so different?” “I wish I was black…” Do you really want to know? To emphasize with us? I mean, you can’t right? Because it […]
National Poetry Month 1/30 | Razor
I wonder how long it takes for love to fade? Does it seem forever, like when I prop my legs up to shave? Smooth and slick, we’re tumbling down this fake friendship like the three blades of my Shick razor along my legs I’m careful not to prick Sometimes you […]
THROWBACK POETRY | What If
What if What if I told you I wasn’t trying to make you fall in love? If I Told you I wanted relation without the ship Without the tears, the ocean, the sinking ships of our relation-shit What if I told you This is as good as it gets Warm […]
POETRY | Jungle
After her, you were never ready for a relationship You just didn’t want to lose out on me So you became a farmer You planted little seeds in my heart that grew into trees which tore down the walls that kept us apart And we did it You know, we […]