Saturday, February 24, 2018

Artistic Love

You don't feel how i feel towards you
But i am happy I can still love you
For if i can't love you in reality
I will love you in public
In the scribbles of my writings
Through my words of poetry
Through my lines of song
Through a love letter

I will love you with my entire being
I will pour out my heart and soul into every piece of art
I will bring you to life with my thoughts unwritten, unspoken
I will love you every day
I will love you every night
I will love you as though there is no tomorrow 

You don't feel how I feel towards you
But I am happy I can still love you
For if I can't love you in reality 
I will love you with the help of ink and paper 
Our vows permanent 
Our love public
And our unique love shall be remembered even when we are long gone

But I am hopeful that in the life after
I will physically love you 
For I'd have already artistically loved you
In my works of art

Monday, February 12, 2018

Greatness Is Acceptance of Self

Little black girl
Do stand up
Little black girl
Chin up

Little black girl
Come forward 
Stand in front of this mirror
Admire your little nose
Admire your little ears
Admire your little lips
Admire your little feet 
Admire your little hands
Admire your white crystal eyes 
And your white cream teeth
Admire your kinky ember black hair
Admire the beauty and grandeur you bear

little black girl
look at this mirror
Mark this date and remember

remember you are pretty
remember your skin is gold
remember its color an armor
remember you are great
No less of a human
for being a little black girl

Little black girl
I insist
Little black girl
For it is no shame to be one 
Little black girl

This poem is specially written for you
This poem is specifically written to you
Let no one
Belittle you 
Let no one
Break you 
Let no one
Mock you 
For being a little black girl 
For I once was a little black girl
And now I am a proud African Queen
You too are one in the making

Thursday, February 1, 2018

Night Musings

i write in the night
when the stars shine bright
and the moon is my lamp

i write in the night
when its silent and dark
i write out my fears
I write out my doubts 
I dump them into the dark
Where I would like them to reside

I write in the night
With mellow slow songs playing in the background 
Lukas Graham singing his funeral song
Alan walker faded 
A night of sadness and deep thoughts 

I write in the night
The night he broke my heart
The night I was in denial
The night I thought it was an April fool's day joke

I write in the night
The night I got my first kiss 
From a charming prince 
Our love grew stronger 
With each sunrise
And each sunset
But now Bitter Sweet Memories
Sweet waters I should not have tasted
For they are now sour
No, not like lemon
For lemon is sweet to taste

I write in the night
For in the night is when I can clearly think
Silence...
The noise in my head.

Cheers to poetry written at night

I am meant to be asleep 
But my eyelids won't shut
Because my mind is awake
And there is no way it is letting the other parts of the body rest 

It is beckoning me to think of days past
It is imploring me to think of events yet to pass
I entertain both for a while 
Then rhetoric questions decide...
Don't you think life is full of wonder?
Don't you think you have grown up way too fast?
Are you really ready for the next phase of life?
Are you happy being the person you are?

I am meant to sleep 
But my eyelids won't shut
Because my mind is awake
And there is no way it is letting the other parts of the body rest

That's why I am learning to let my heart lead at times 
Because I bet I'd be asleep way before this time 
It is 2am in the night
The only noise,
My thoughts screaming to be heard.