Tag: poetry

Tragedy sings me to sleep

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Tragedy sings me to sleeps  – 1/7/2020 Tragedy sings me to sleep. not even a door,  a wall can smother the violence that brews so close to me. A messenger of peace, I’m met with the herolds of the harbinger of chaos;  i’m not prepared for this storm of rage. You call it love when […]

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i’ve forgotten

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I’ve forgotten how to be soft, tender, and warm.I’m standing amid a snowstorm and it’s starting to feel like home.When did it begin? Was it with him? Taking something from me time and time again, I’m used to shivering in the cold. naked and defenseless, when’s the last time an embrace was offered, no guarantees […]

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you and i

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how Long?

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How Long? – Mecca-Amirah Jackson How many times will I curl up and try to disappear? How many more nights of begging for answers? Loneliness ripping  through me like riptides; im clinging on  for dear life. Haven’t thought of ending it in a while but standing before the truth, alone, God it makes me question […]

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under lock and Key

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Under Lock and Key – 9/28/2020 some days i miss you enough for three—some days i turn to my phone just to touch the letters of your name. my soul aches for you—it’s lonely and this everlasting winter needs to come to an end. i’m weary but I am still standing. but there needs to be […]

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i demand the moon

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i demand the moon – 9/26/2020 sometimes i miss you, most i days i don’t. it’s fading—those moments where i can easily picture your face. i struggle now to remember.  if this is progress than why does my heart scream? pumping slower, heart beat losing its rhythm, i’m moving on, going forward but without the […]

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