Category: Wounds

jack frost

3/27/2017

have you ever seen love caged in ice?
its a beautiful, tragic sight
but sometimes the glare hurts your eyes

i thought i could thaw it
warm it up with my embrace
so that love could pour out of its cage
it didn't work at first
still i figured it was worth the wait
but in time it was i whose TEMPERATURE had changed
HE WAS JACK FROST
BRINGING A CHILL TO EVERYTHING HE TOUCHED

Jack frost,
YOU TURNED ME COLD
JUST LIKE YOU
I hate winter
i hate the cold
but, I still played in snow

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swallowing swords and building fires

3/20/2017

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Countless women swallow Themselves whole
Using swords to Force their light down
To the pit of their wombs
Praying to bear daughters
To carry the torch They consumed

We are the daughters
born With swords in our right hands
To forge new paths
torches in the left
To light the way
And blood boiling wild and hot
Coursing through our veins
We have been imprinted with flame

Our mothers were the martyrs
They swallowed their light
But we still saw the glow in their cheeks
The slither of sunshine
Breaking through their teeth
Because of their sacrifice
We were born of Fire and steel

Our swords incite fear
But the true power is in our light
And with it We can't be tamed
We won't be bound
We are limitless
And the world is scared
Because We possess magic
they struggle to understand
so they use our swords to pierce our insides
Force our hands To turn in on themselves
And We have learned to hide the flame
in our mouths keep them shut

But we will not self destruct
Oh no
It's time to Pull the swords from our throats
With mouths wide
We will sing songs of defiance
Using the light pouring out to
Gaze upon the earth with new eyes
And we will dance
because there is fire shut up in our bones
The embers hum to our battle song

We are the daughters of women
With fires in their bellies
Use your sword to carve their names
We were born to set the town a blaze
So burn baby burn
it is your destiny
to engulf this world in flames

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tandem bikes

2/20/2017

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i tried to ride a bike
Like I rhode you
In the dark
Pitch black
Searching for shades of blue
But like bikes
I never learned
A few miles before the wheel turned
Out of control
Fuck a break
you put your foot down no

I still wish
we would've
Stayed on
We had places to go
but, i guess
Uncharted landscapes
By tandem bicycles
Were never meant to be seen

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ornaments

2/6/2017

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Are we full yet?
Have we been filled to the brim,
With the rotting corpses of black bodies,
Whose lives were sucked from them,
By authoritative hands?
Has the last sneaker been lodged in our throats,
Or is it more we we can stand?

How many times does white supremacy,
Have to make itself evident before we believe it?
Maybe when white women and children,
Pull out the picnic baskets from their attics,
To sit beneath motionless black bodies,
Swaying from trees like ornaments,
As The scent of strange fruit cleanses their palettes.
When viral videos return to postcards we will see.

Then we will understand.
Revolution is sometimes written in the permanent ink of blood.
We have shared our due for far too long.
I'm talking Action
Marching is nice but it's passive
Spreading the word is good
But we need more to happen
Everyone waiting for the first person to move
That first person may have to be you

It's time for them to catch up.
They don't know pain.
Soulless people can't feel
But their pockets hurt
Do not finance the oppressors
And watch them burn.

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Giant toy cars/ unfulfilled

2/6/2017

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I am only but 22
But I have experienced an emptiness akin
To 44 year old men
With giant toy cars
And life-sized barbies to squeeze them in

I too
crushed this dry fruit
That had become my life
Head thrust back mouth wide
With squinted eyes
Drawing the illusion
That a drop of joy might fall and
Graze the tongue
For I had forgotten it's taste

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invisible man

2/6/2017

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I find myself in your clothes
As if wearing your scent
Feels nearly as good
As you wearing me

There's fun in pretending
Living in the spaces
You once occupied
is as close as I'll come
To the fabrication of what was
Making homes out of the clothes you housed
feels empty
Even with me inside
Cold
Even with the warmth of its weight

It always was
Cold
And
Empty
Loving you my invisible man

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licking wounds

2/6/2017

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The embers spewed from your mouth
Burned holes in my skin
Scathing, etching pain into my flesh

I have grown numb to the shock, still
I kiss the scars every night before bed

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jack frost

swallowing swords and building fires

tandem bikes

ornaments

﻿Giant toy cars/ unfulfilled

invisible man

licking wounds

The embers spewed from your mouth​Burned holes in my skinScathing, etching pain into my flesh​I have grown numb to the shock, stillI kiss the scars every night before bed

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Giant toy cars/ unfulfilled

The embers spewed from your mouth
Burned holes in my skin
Scathing, etching pain into my flesh

I have grown numb to the shock, still
I kiss the scars every night before bed