detangling the storm above me, i hurry to push pen to paper– to quiet the thunder, the lightening, the rumbling clouds that threatens more than common rain.
detangling the storm
Tag: poetry
like ashes
i must be on your mind, right? it is not fair that out of the two of us, i am the only one suffering? sleep evades me, i question each and every bite, the mirror and i are no longer friendly, my moods shift, augment, dissolve like the faces of the moon. it eats at [...]
destroyed
i ripped myself apart, for you. i tore at my skin, scrapped the flesh from my nails, for you. the blood made my hands slippery but i pursued on, for you. the hair you once tangled in, became pulpy clumps in no time. the eyes you only complimented once were easy to gouge out; i [...]
drown
i once drowned in your love. every breath was a struggle, yet i pursued on. suffocation turned me blind to your actions but i readily gasped in your poisons.
glory
i hurry to part the clouds to witness the full glory of your beaming face.
Mecca-Amirah Jackson 