Dates
Sugar will just never do, again.
Tag: Love
How to heal.
There is spiritual refuge, where the world around
Refused my requests for respite.
Lessons From My Daughter
…adults, to be kind to themselves, choose disbelief.
Choose not to hear, while children, brave their worst fears.
How To Be Loved
Am I not a center of adorations.
Am I not doted on,
Wanted?
Always.
Crush
We wear slogans of positive energy,
Cloaked around justifiable anxieties.
And whisper quietly,
About the shouting, inside.
In The Time
I had space to pretend to be ok about it.
Comfortably
All that he had, could not equate to what he could be.
Proud Roots
Sometimes, when I dream,
I wake up as nothing short of
A Proud African Woman.
But, I’ve always been short.
And I can’t paint my skin…
Night Terrors
…we were all told not to speak of it.
But in the night, these memories haunt, lips sealed, we see each other different.
As She Should Be
it should be more,
than a dream,
That our great great great
Grandchildren
Get to be
On an Earth, that is still
Beautiful.
As She Should Be.