This isn’t love (love does not take from you)- 9/15/2020 you say this is love, tears mingling with your pleas. skin pale, teeth rotting from decay; how can you call this love when it drains you? robs you of joy and leaves you with nothing but scraps to keep warm? you deserve a feast [...]
Tag: poetry
she was nothing like me.
she was nothing like me. // pages 34-35 she was nothing like me. she was nothing like me–everything that wasn’t me.i’m not sure if i’m sobbing or screaming. |thinner than me. smaller. softer. paler. | she brought out the worst in me. a side of me i rarely see.rarely let breathe. and now, she’s all [...]
where it went wrong
"where it went wrong" - Ascend- page 27-29 where it went wrong i it has become an obsession of mine: going back in time, decipheringthe wreckage, the carnage,to find where it went wrong. ii there must be a clear path...a reason...something so simple that i could go back in timeso you can love me. forgive [...]
bury me
bury me -sept 5/2020 bury my emotions, so deep, you can’t see the tops of my feet. bury me, bury me, deep. i don’t want them to hear my screams. bury me, until they see, that this was more than a cry for help; i came to you for shelter but you turned your cheek. [...]
Ascend (Weightless #2)
Ascend -page 8 † i am ready for the release, the certainty of eternity. so many times, so many nights,i questioned why God gave me arms instead of wings. why must i wait? what lessons await me?’ my time will come, my time is near.his love is gracious, his love is a wound that never [...]
Mecca-Amirah Jackson 