poem – Page 24 – Mecca-Amirah Jackson

maiden of flowers

April 28, 2018April 28, 2018by Mecca_Amirah2 Comments

you split the earth apart, just to capture my heart. persephone, maiden of flowers, maiden of dewy thighs, and rounded breasts, you were rich of land but poor of company, duty-bound but smitten. sprouting from the earth, they call me damsel instead of bringer of life, harbinger of men. reluctant instead of queen, but i [...]

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without warning

April 28, 2018April 28, 2018by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

why does falling out of love, imply reluctance? something sudden, without warning? a force instead of reason, action instead of neglect? maybe we romanticize falling out of love-deem it tragic instead of something that just happens? should it be something we revisit? https://www.instagram.com/p/BhxKw-jnVlR/?taken-by=amateur__poet

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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 [...]