thoughts – Page 23 – Mecca-Amirah Jackson

Love will Guide me

January 2, 2017January 12, 2017by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

Of course I want to find love and all the gooey emotions that come along with it. But because I want it, does not mean I am willing to settle for less. Yes, loneliness is my biggest fear, but I refuse to SETTLE because I miss the intimate touch of another. Love is…difficult and [...]

Poetry, Short Story/Prose, Thoughtful

This feeling…

November 2, 2016January 12, 2017by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

This feeling is almost like yellow-white lightening. An unnamed taste that cannot easily part from my lips, I crave the zest of this element yet, I cannot name the feeling it awakens within me. I will search the highest of tides and the lowest beams of yellow-eyed predators until I am able to name [...]

Poetry, Thoughtful

Lamentable

October 2, 2016January 12, 2017by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

Why must my torment be lamented through song? Like a son falling from the sky with a smile as bright as the sun A constant chorus tunnels through my ears until they bleed– a trail of crimson against the swan neck of my demise, a ruby red flower plucked too early from Kore’s petulant brow. [...]

Personal Posts, thoughts

Dreamers vs. Realists

September 13, 2016July 1, 2017by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

There is a battle within me that rages: The realist, the dreamer, Who shall stand victorious? I am the creative sort; my brain functions on such a subjective level that every aspect of life both fascinates yet also offends me. I take such offense to Life that I unleash my feelings on inanimate objects to [...]

Poetry, Thoughtful

by my own hand

September 5, 2016January 12, 2017by Mecca_AmirahLeave a Comment

I remember when my body erupted in pleasure. At first, my body shuts down– my eyes blank, my breath loud in the sudden silence. Then, I was set aflame. My body shook greatly, a hurricane breathing its gale winds, a tempestuous tsunami crashing, stealing, wrecking with malicious intent, an earthquake splintering the earth’s plates, fracturing as [...]