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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 [...]

Poetry

Reflective iv (unanswered)

July 6, 2017July 6, 2017by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

<Reflective iv> (unanswered) [Why did you never look me in the eyes when you hurt me? Was it because when you did, you saw yourself through me? did you tremble? did the image of you, monstrous and ugly, keep you up at night? did you cry when you broke me; did you keep the shattered [...]

Poetry

Reflective iii (neglect)

July 6, 2017by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

<Reflective iii> (neglect) He bled, heavily. I tried to fix it. He was broken beyond repair; touched by darkness, betrayed by family’s oversight, I wanted to be the one to hold your hand, hold your heart, and be the one you turned over to and talked all throughout midnight. But the blue hour shined [...]

Poetry, Thoughtful, thoughts

Reflective ii (trauma)

July 6, 2017July 6, 2017by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

<Reflective ii> (trauma) Memories so bleak, I seem to have forgotten– {heaven-sent or trauma}–I have seem to forgotten the moment you shattered me beyond repair. You ripped me apart; took a yellow hand and punched into my chest. What hurts more– the impact or the accusations? How grotesque my heart appeared outside of my [...]

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 [...]