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Poetry

Fairytales

 

If I were free I would stay up all night

Let my fingers danced against your spine

Turn the whole of you gently from side to side

If I were free

I would let you wisk 

me away to fantasy of  love that captured me forever with just one kiss

Can our time be magical?

Of course, that's the story of black women

Traveling through time on wings, prays, strength, attitude, and heart encrusted in gems

If I were free,

I would close my eyes

Let u exhale in my psyche

And explode from discovery

A high to analyze and not summarize

I want to be yours in the day

I want to float away

Make my own image of you some day

If I were free

I would find ur climax 

Fold up in your falling action

Delight that we reached indelible satisfaction

I plot to be yours in every moment

I agree in disobedience 

I could transcend

Live on Walden

And fulfill decrees

Only with you

But I'm trapped in chronos

Responsibility

My emotions scream

I wish I could lose the sense of urgency to sleep

Hold you in my hand

And continue to read.

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Funny things they are

Lines

Lines that create border

To make sure you don’t cross over them

But can you fathom

How thin

These lines are

because they come from the left side of all that’s imagined

pose themselves with premises

of

I was only jokin

A dagger wrapped 100 truths

Murderous tongues aiming to kill all that’s human

Let me flash some lights on imperfections

Discolorations

Rolls of good eating and lack of stepfording

Public declarations to friends and kin

“What wrong with her? Why she so self-conscious?”

I she felt the pokes thru the lines that are thin

Gun claps

Clap backs

Snap backs

Headwraps

Gray hoodies

Justify stifling growth

Why do you fear?

We are only protecting

All that we’ve stolen

It’s mine

Look at you

You hate you too

See how you do

So how can you blame me

You even lie to yourself

“it’s a term of endearment”

Never to think

You keep

Speaking death over yourself

But it’s blurry

This line is

Must be the reason so many always crossing it.

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