poem – Page 57 – Mecca-Amirah Jackson

Silence

June 27, 2016February 24, 2017by Mecca_Amirah2 Comments

In the chocking silence of my loneliness, music has become my only solace, my panacea in a world that ignores my constant pleas. the singer croons my pain as the drummer nods along on-beat. A passerby, headphones tragically fastened hums along to my agony. A theater streaming with people Eagerly ready to rock-out to my [...]

Midnight thoughts, Poetry, Short Poem

Dull Splendor

June 27, 2016February 24, 2017by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

She shines bright against my dull splendor. What is so special about a girl who wears her scars on her sleeves? I can no longer bare my facade masterfully, A mask crafted with beguiling care and fashioned to fit and grow around a changing plane– it slips every time he sighs your name. The way his [...]

Midnight thoughts, Poetry, Short Poem

2.33 am

June 27, 2016February 24, 2017by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

I cannot remember the last time I truly dreamed; fabricated quandaries and a lover shrouded in mists, Half-convinced I’m slowly becoming mad– I look to idle things to keep my devilish mind at bay.

Poetry, Thoughtful

Impossible, improbable

June 19, 2016January 13, 2017by Mecca_Amirah2 Comments

$Impossible, improbable$

Impossible, improbable the taste of your lips draw me in even when your harsh words cut deep. Red-hazed passion mixing with a riveting blue spills from my tearducks, in the shape of fractured stars. My pink tongue tastes salt even when I catch your lust-glazed eyes. Pink flesh whetted by crimson, a macabre painting stained by [...]

Poetry, Short Poem

like a thousand blades–

June 19, 2016January 13, 2017by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

They fall one by one. Flickering, fluidly as a fallen man, spiraling from the starless sky like a flurry of snow; tinkling on the earth like a child’s laughter , and cutting the flesh like a thousand blades.