Category: Poetry

I felt something as I turned the corner. Those around me never knew how much pain I felt. When something goes wrong, it doesn’t have to end in defeat. My team was counting on me.  I was counting on myself.  Quitting never was an option. I could taste the victory, yet still not able to…

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Your long, flowing hair. I know you’re thinking about it. It’s not what should have been. Hundreds of years you’ve had it that way. I know you think it wrong. Hair grows back. I pray that it does. It must fit the mold. You realize that. Don’t have any fear. It’s been put to use.…

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Dear lady of the night, I applaud you for all the things you haven’t given me, And those things you will yet give me. Thanking you enough for your hospitality cannot be done, For you keep giving me something I shouldn’t have. The hallways of your home have become my pathways to freedom. Don’t worry,…

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I came upon a fork on a dirt road, with five options before me, some must have been made by other shoes, worn down year after year. Confusion set in as my goal was to create my own path, but I felt so tired, and I wanted to get to the end quickly as possible,…

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This is what has been happening to us, a reflection of a much bigger scale. The one where divisions have been occurring at a rapid pace. Some are trying to find a way back to normalcy. Others have different ways to find it. People push and shove without much thinking. Wanting a reaction to serve…

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I went to sleep with two eyes, ears, legs, arms, feet, and hands.  The next morning I woke up with something else attached to my body. It was touching my leg, tickling it, and was moving freely. I lifted up my covers.  The horror of what I saw.  The color of it made me sick.…

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The Earth seemed to open itself to me, quite willingly, and as the elements reached out for my ankles and legs, I began to wonder. Was the pain I felt worth it?  Were the scrapes worth it too?  Was the chill in my hands and feet, in my head, or in my heart? It was…

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I came to be known as something they barely see. I walked countless streets, searching for certainty in dark places. When you descend from it, the desire never stops. It can carry you to the very end.  It can stop the suffering. I make time useless and irritations numb. Whether half awake or asleep, I…

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They say love is never where you want it. Not in bars where people appear their best. Women hope their gloss has the same shine as thirty minutes before. They say love is never found sitting down. Not on stools where women cross their legs, then uncross them. Not even when they flip their hair…

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Tiny villages in the sand go about their business, Too insignificant for the human eye to give much attention, but not the tiny giants who live close by. They want to go beyond and see the other side, but they are not viewed as a good thing, and the tiny people think of them as…

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I watched you turn into something better. There you were, so beautiful and so bright. I knew the energy within you would never die away. Luck was on your side, pure luck, whole luck, the kind you only find when not looking. Simply letting it play out as life plays out on an empty stage.…

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I waited for it to come outside. It did, but only wanted to play, and play not according to the rules, but to the exceptions. Little did it know, that wasn’t part of my plan.  I had not come here to mess around. I meant business.  I was on the job.   Kill at no expense.…

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