Poetry – Page 38 – Mecca-Amirah Jackson

she lies beside me

April 18, 2018April 17, 2018by Mecca_Amirah3 Comments

she lies beside me tangled in expired dreams and pristine bedsheets. she sleeps, stubbornly, a question puckered beside her cheek: will my good deeds be met with a cure, to this loneliness that resides inside of me like a cold, cellar door? she tosses, she turns, she kicks, she coughs, and while i sit beside [...]

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love is an illusion

April 18, 2018April 17, 2018by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

love is an illusion and i’ve been lost in the desert for centuries. scorpions prick at my feet yet i tread on- desperate to find my oasis, my love, my one-and-only? but what if love is a lie and i have bound myself to a lonely existence? a life of waiting by the pier, waiting [...]

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nights were once the loneliness

April 17, 2018April 17, 2018by Mecca_Amirah2 Comments

nights were once the lonelinesses of times until i shut my eyes and saw that the moon is always there, present, when when the sky is bright. an omnipotent being hovering over my deeds, my pleas and the rare weakness of greed; i knew that there was time to grow, to change, to allow others [...]

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almost like magic

April 17, 2018April 17, 2018by Mecca_Amirah2 Comments

the light caresses wonder and a tender emotion in your eyes. it’s almost like magic when the sun sifts through the wavering eddies of ether and smog to shine so brilliantly, it’s blinds✨

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April Books <3

April 17, 2018April 17, 2018by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

Can’t wait to read these💕✨ 📚🌙children of blood and bone by tony adeyemi -So far, it is AMAZING! 📚why a poem? by @criesofaith💕 📚death by poetry by @deathbypoetry https://www.instagram.com/p/BhMo4zYgknn/?taken-by=amateur__poet