Love is not cruel
we are cruel
love is not a game
we have made a game
out of love.
I can't tell if my mother is
terrified or in love with
my father it all
looks the same
i flinch when you touch me
i fear it is him.
I would give anything to sing like Beyonce or Adele. I've said many times to my friends that if I could sing like them, I would give up poetry and writing.
I feel social media can be very distracting, unhealthy, and harmful to one's self-confidence. I don't even log on to it on my phone except when I post something on Instagram.
Rivers fall from my mouth
tears my eyes can't carry.
Something about the phrase -- something about
how i have to be unlike the women
i call sisters in order to be wanted
makes me want to spit your tongue out.
Sometimes
the apology
never comes
when it is wanted
and when it comes
it is neither wanted
nor needed
- you are too late.
There is a difference between
someone telling you
they love you and
them actually
loving you.
Searched everywhere for a miracle foolish enough to not realize i was already living in one.
If I'm not the love of your life
I'll be the greatest loss instead.
I am a museum full of art
but you had your eyes shut.
Trying to convince myself
i am allowed
to take up space
is like writing with
my left hand
when i was born
to use my right.
To heal
you have to
get to the root
of the wound
and kiss it all the way up.
And here you are living
despite it all.
You look at me and cry
everything hurts
i hold you and whisper
but everything can heal.
Do not look for healing
at the feet of those
who broke you.
Do not bother holding onto
that thing that does not want you
-you cannot make it stay.
A lot of times
we are angry at other people
for not doing what
we should have done for ourselves
- responsibility.
He placed his hands
on my mind
before reaching
for my waist
my hips
or my lips
he didn't call me
beautiful first
he called me
exquisite
- how he touches me.
How you love yourself is
how you teach others
to love you.
Don't mistake salt for sugar if he wants to be with you he will. it's that simple.
You are a mirror
if you continue to starve yourself of love
you'll only meet people who'll starve you too
if you soak yourself in love
the universe will hand you those
who'll love you too.
I am water
soft enough
to offer life
tough enough
to drown it away.
Fall
in love
with your solitude.
My god
is not as unreachable as
they'd like you to think
my god is beating inside us infinitely.
When you are broken
and he has left you
do not question
whether you were
enough
the problem was
you were so enough
he was not able to carry it.
The irony of loneliness is we all feel it at the same time -- together.
People say things
meant to rip you in half
but you hold the power to not
turn their words into a knife
and cut yourself.
Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.
Despite knowing they won't be here for long, they still choose to live their brightest lives -- sunflowers.