Daydreamer – Page 2 – Mecca-Amirah Jackson

You Will Feel My Absence

September 21, 2022September 14, 2022by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

you will feel my absence, like an arrow embedded in your chest. parts of you were gifted to me and i refuse to give them back. never break the heart of a writer because we will take every hurt, every part of you and weave it into every poem. is it spiteful–maybe–but isn’t art supposedto [...]

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Cold Questions

September 17, 2022September 11, 2022by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

cold questions that i ask myself leave me warm in placesyour hands should have occupied. i shouldn’t have to strain mymemories to recall the imprintof your touch. they fade every day,every night, every blue hour past midnight. i would only need to lie back on my bed, pillows cradling my head as my thighs welcome [...]

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Retired from the Earth

September 15, 2022September 11, 2022by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

i retired from the earthand now, i look to the stars. sole audience to my strife,i weep with a clap of thunder and lightning strikes tocatch the first tear. i dance with the moon’s shadow until i am dizzy with starsand can no longer hear. fairy wine never touched my lips, but as time perspired,i [...]

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Because Love is Alive

September 8, 2022September 2, 2022by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

it was the way you held my starethat convinced me fairytales were real. a love so indecently unfair, a kiss shared, unsealed, mirroring the sun’s glare. life became easy, unequivocally tangible, and with you, a love unmarred. it was you that held me together when my world fell apart;you were the one who told me [...]

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Shadow Play

September 3, 2022August 30, 2022by Mecca_Amirah2 Comments

gathered closelike two flickering flames,together we burn brighter amid thedarkly hollows. the shadows retreat.the whispers expire. the doubts resurface, but with steady hands we extinguishour worries. incandescence;let us marvel as we shed our clothes.layers and layers of insecuritieslet the shadow play; reveal where youmade your “flaws” your home.let me kiss every hurt and allow me [...]