Romantic – Page 3 – Mecca-Amirah Jackson

conversation and connection

July 6, 2017by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

<conversation and connections> We don't say much when we are together; the world could collapse around us, the stars could fall like raindrops, and the moon could pierce the sun and even then,  silence,  golden silence, has become a silver lining in my noisy heart. Who could have known that the less said, says the most?  Who [...]

Romantic

too shy

July 2, 2017July 2, 2017by Mecca_Amirah1 Comment

too shy, you once whispered to me. too shy, you once kissed into my neck. too shy, you once bit into my lips. i was too shy for you; i opened my petals to you like a night bloomer. when the clock struck eight, i was yours to play with, yours to sate, yours [...]

Romantic

memories

July 2, 2017by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

Memories taste sweeter in daydreams, but when you look at me, i forget who i am, i forget, i forget how to breathe. i’ve studied about love, under a tree, wrapped up in a quilt stitched of stars and dreamed why it seemed so easy, almost like watching tv. books stacked up high, rustling [...]

Poetry, Romantic

Unrequited

July 1, 2017July 1, 2017by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

“is it about me? the poem you wrote about my eyes? that they hold you, keep you, sustain you? that moment when i made you smile, and i thought it was the trick of the light, could have i found the truth if i leaned a little bit closer? we never kissed, little more [...]

Romantic

yours

June 19, 2017by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

the crush of ice, melts when your tongue traces secrets up and down my back. splintering under the heat, we need more than twisted sheets and incessant pleas when you miss me. it hurts to leave me like that; burning like a shooting star, glowing with red-glazed heat, you crashed into me like a [...]