Caffeine Fix
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Masquerade
I know what he likes he likes a hard woman (half of me) and not a soft girl (the other half) and I commenced showing him that he could be rough with me and I could strut in those patent-leather pumps and memorize grid maps of beauty so complicated you have to look for it… Continue reading
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Faith’s Paradox
“If you have faith that God will never give you a test you’re not strong enough for then you can have the discernment that God won’t always just give you tests you are too strong for.” that’s what a pastor once told me that the pains of our lives are always proportional to who we… Continue reading
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Deadlock
but our planets still revolve around the same sun and sometimes our orbits can’t help but coincide it’s inevitable and when you walk into the room the walls turn into ice and my blood runs cold creating snowflake patterns on my lungs and I just want to flee from here except gravity won’t let me… Continue reading
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Handicap to Healing
It is better when you are out of my sight and I can make believe that you are eons away that regretting the fission that took place between our two formerly conjoined dimensions is futile, better when I can tell myself time has forked and you have turbo-thrust in your Concorde towards a horizon so… Continue reading
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I Used To Be So Powerful
I am losing my identity to this pain a slow and meticulous dissection its shiny scalpels of hate cutting into the things I used to know the things I used to stand for the lessons I painstakingly stood in line for to earn and partake of being harvested from my soul to be transplanted elsewhere… Continue reading
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Final Sanctuary
The light coming through the blinds thick with accusations suffocated me so I ran out locking the doors tight like being chased like they would eventually break down the walls and I was merely buying time with the steel fastenings that wouldn’t hold the disaster in but it wasn’t in 303 Windsor Tower 303 Windsor… Continue reading
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Tug-of-War
because I will always love you and you can never love me because I refuse to be one of many no matter how well you’d treat me because she and I spoke together like it’s the most natural thing but it’s the most surreal thing and she sounded happy but God, I’ve been there, baby… Continue reading
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Mind Sex
He is my mental lover sitting across from me on the table the perfect gentleman stimulating my mind with his talks of politics and society religion abstract thoughts about human nature tickling my senses with his command of movies and music arts and children trees and the full moon making me crave and swoon internally… Continue reading
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Corollary
I only write because I have a soul. I write only because I weep because I bleed because I want and need and I have to have words to breathe My words, and I claim them rightfully, can’t be read over the mic in a roomful of people they are secrets you pass on by… Continue reading
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Until I Fell in Love with a Poet
I used to take this pen to rewrite any city I take a liking to I used to blot out the night with ink and reinvent the stars I used to send my poetry into the collective consciousness of the soul of the world like paper cranes flying across a mysterious moon I used to… Continue reading
Rampant & Golden 