thoughts – Page 8 – Mecca-Amirah Jackson

self-conscious

February 22, 2017February 22, 2017by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

Self- conscious: The image in the mirror distorts... The image ripples, distorts as the chatter behind me disappears.Time pauses- a blip in time as the mirror unveils a being fashioned in flesh, muscle, and bone, a being that almost resembles me. She turns left and right, sucks in her stomach and arches her back-hoping to distract [...]

Body Positive, Personal Posts, thoughts

conversations

February 17, 2017February 17, 2017by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

Everyone: How are you feeling today? Me: anxious and self- conscious. Everyone: Oh? (Taken aback) Me: yeah. I feel life is crashing down on me. Like I'm in the middle of the ocean and I'm drowning. There is not enough air yet my lungs keep on working. I put so much pressure on myself that [...]

Short Poem, thoughts

languid fantasies

February 8, 2017by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

languid fantasies have commanded the stage for aeons, but have we forgotten the beasts we once were–the beasts who did not need music and poetry to convey what they truly desired?

Body Positive, feminism, Poetry, thoughts

my womb is not my own;

February 6, 2017February 7, 2017by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

Like Eve, I fell, And like Lilith, I am punished. My womb is not my own; Pale hands caress and judge As I spread my thighs with my own authorization; my womb is not my own; Pain wrecks havoc inside of me, I curl Up like the fetus inside me; my womb is not my [...]

Poetry, thoughts

2:25 am

February 3, 2017by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

Writing is therapeutic for me. It releases the doubts from my psyche, It purges all the negativity from my mind and for a moment, at this particular moment, I feel wholly alive. Alive in a trancsedental sense. The gate to my mind is left wide open and creativity barges through without dealing with security. I am [...]