as women
we should
cook
clean
mind our offspring
make sure you release often
in some cases bring home the bacon
pick up the tab
stroke your ego
launder your laundry
scrub your dishes
put up with your excess bitches...
i sit and think
men want us to be supernatural
at which point
we realize
and render you useless
other than for the item that lies between your legs
because the muscle that rests between your shoulders
provide obstacles that prove to hold women in modern day slavery
to your rules
your tests
your waivers of fidelity and infidelity, and all acts in between
we stand, or should stand by you
because you are incapable of error
incapable of forgiveness
and lack the ambition to engage in the dual perspective
you are God on earth...
No.
i am
not an
angry black woman
but i have observed too many standards being held way above our heads
and boys; self-proclaimed men
dangle these ideals
in the air
when, the last time i fact checked
many of you
don't have
anything to offer me in return for my lengthy duties and services
you
should
wait
on me
hand and foot
wait for me to come home at 4am
because i,
unlike you
posses ambition that you can build a fortress with
i come to your table baring gifts
sadly,
the only items on your table are the
gifts that i have brought to you...
Friday, December 31, 2010
will you be there just in the nick of time to catch my tears before they hit the pavement?
Ironically you are the culprit,
you confess to me as if i am the pulpit
i hate you
i leave you
i love you
try to run you over with your vehicle
but we
are to be wed around this time next year
love is temporary to permanent insanity
a trip in which
i've never been before
i suppose..
Ironically you are the culprit,
you confess to me as if i am the pulpit
i hate you
i leave you
i love you
try to run you over with your vehicle
but we
are to be wed around this time next year
love is temporary to permanent insanity
a trip in which
i've never been before
i suppose..
A Poem for Love
I slept with "love" on the first night
Before i knew his last name
Before i knew his last run
Or how he played his last game
Gazing into his eyes in the Miami heat
I'd be childish if said Ciroc and Patron were to blame
Something about him was unique, dancing with his pace,
swaying to his beat
Friendly, was a game of pool
First kisses
Not April but i was drunk;
A fool
Shot glasses paraded my memory
Thoughts of: when we woke up if he'd remember me?
Waking up to a semi stranger
False alarm ; no danger
His face, when a partial sober mind began to roll over
He was a friend of a friend
Who aided my inebriated shoulder
When those toxins hit my system like a boulder
And we flash forward to present day
Love re-entered my world in a monumental way
No regrets
Of spending the night with Love on my first day
On a weekend that proved to be memorial
I'll always remember the first day i saw you
Ironically,
It feels
As if
Every night i spend with you, my love
Is our first
We have taken one another for better or for worst
I revert back to predestined evenings
Catalina kisses
And Continental sleep overs
Where I
Slept with Love
On the first night
Which leads me to believe that I had 20/20 vision back then,
For a future sight
That I'd spend countless days, awaiting to sleep with Love continuously every night..
Before i knew his last name
Before i knew his last run
Or how he played his last game
Gazing into his eyes in the Miami heat
I'd be childish if said Ciroc and Patron were to blame
Something about him was unique, dancing with his pace,
swaying to his beat
Friendly, was a game of pool
First kisses
Not April but i was drunk;
A fool
Shot glasses paraded my memory
Thoughts of: when we woke up if he'd remember me?
Waking up to a semi stranger
False alarm ; no danger
His face, when a partial sober mind began to roll over
He was a friend of a friend
Who aided my inebriated shoulder
When those toxins hit my system like a boulder
And we flash forward to present day
Love re-entered my world in a monumental way
No regrets
Of spending the night with Love on my first day
On a weekend that proved to be memorial
I'll always remember the first day i saw you
Ironically,
It feels
As if
Every night i spend with you, my love
Is our first
We have taken one another for better or for worst
I revert back to predestined evenings
Catalina kisses
And Continental sleep overs
Where I
Slept with Love
On the first night
Which leads me to believe that I had 20/20 vision back then,
For a future sight
That I'd spend countless days, awaiting to sleep with Love continuously every night..
A Straw Can Break a Camel's Back
You complained about not being kept abreast,
and I'm confused because in all my endeavors it was like an email to many,
i copied you...
So all of this pretending you didn't know
investigator shit like Nancy Drew
One of the many reasons why i need something new
You mistaken me for a fancy broad with a fancy crew
Obviously you didn't know me and i don't know you
Simple phone calls and forget me nots,
honey they go a long way, they say a lot
Often you were mute
Often you'd flirt with many
I lacked the energy to refute
i opted out
i sent you that email
i needed to breathe
Needed to find a man worthy to give,
worthy to receive
Short sleeves
Incapable of storing any tricks
i used to love you
It once was easier than Sunday morning
All of your excuses
shenanigans
Got old
I'm yawning
i fell much deeper than this before
Nothing is more clearer than the exit
The door
I've learned to catch my heart before it shatters, hits the floor
So i copied you that day
A little note to say
It was once better
But i don't thrive well under bad weather
Hot fronts and cold shoulders
i wasn't disastrous,
i asked love why couldn't you master us?
Make us happy
White houses and picket fences
Holding hands and park benches
But we were in a war
On opposite trenches
i needed you like most need coffee in the morning
i was more of a multiple choice option to you
Give me the "D"
Opportunities to share time were more like
Inny Minnie Miney Moe
Never caught that Tiger by the toes
But i
Finally caught that drift
Finally switched my shift
So we would never randomly meet,
downtown on some random street
So i copied you
Modern day
Dear John letter
I wouldn't be home when you knocked, even when the lights were on
The red organ in my chest
Could no longer be your shelter
Because i believe in the L word and reciprocation
And your definition of it seems to coincide with defecation
and I'm confused because in all my endeavors it was like an email to many,
i copied you...
So all of this pretending you didn't know
investigator shit like Nancy Drew
One of the many reasons why i need something new
You mistaken me for a fancy broad with a fancy crew
Obviously you didn't know me and i don't know you
Simple phone calls and forget me nots,
honey they go a long way, they say a lot
Often you were mute
Often you'd flirt with many
I lacked the energy to refute
i opted out
i sent you that email
i needed to breathe
Needed to find a man worthy to give,
worthy to receive
Short sleeves
Incapable of storing any tricks
i used to love you
It once was easier than Sunday morning
All of your excuses
shenanigans
Got old
I'm yawning
i fell much deeper than this before
Nothing is more clearer than the exit
The door
I've learned to catch my heart before it shatters, hits the floor
So i copied you that day
A little note to say
It was once better
But i don't thrive well under bad weather
Hot fronts and cold shoulders
i wasn't disastrous,
i asked love why couldn't you master us?
Make us happy
White houses and picket fences
Holding hands and park benches
But we were in a war
On opposite trenches
i needed you like most need coffee in the morning
i was more of a multiple choice option to you
Give me the "D"
Opportunities to share time were more like
Inny Minnie Miney Moe
Never caught that Tiger by the toes
But i
Finally caught that drift
Finally switched my shift
So we would never randomly meet,
downtown on some random street
So i copied you
Modern day
Dear John letter
I wouldn't be home when you knocked, even when the lights were on
The red organ in my chest
Could no longer be your shelter
Because i believe in the L word and reciprocation
And your definition of it seems to coincide with defecation
Useless
His feelings i tried to borrow,
in hopes that my plan would last longer than tomorrow
but what's done in the dark will be revealed
and that cut will soon have healed..
And all of that love i passed off,
you thought was real
But i dont tend to ask
I usually steal
i borrowed your heart with intentions to replace it
And all the heartache i thought time would erase it
But i put it somewhere on a shelf
And have now misplaced it
Remorseful
You can have mine i assure you
i don't need it
Because men treat me like a book with a beautiful cover, compelling
But they
Don't read it...
in hopes that my plan would last longer than tomorrow
but what's done in the dark will be revealed
and that cut will soon have healed..
And all of that love i passed off,
you thought was real
But i dont tend to ask
I usually steal
i borrowed your heart with intentions to replace it
And all the heartache i thought time would erase it
But i put it somewhere on a shelf
And have now misplaced it
Remorseful
You can have mine i assure you
i don't need it
Because men treat me like a book with a beautiful cover, compelling
But they
Don't read it...
Friday, October 29, 2010
Make do
Poetry is my addiction
Learning to write without a muse because there's not enough antidote in the world to heal my previous afflictions
My priors, my convictions.
I find my calm in the kitchen where chicken provides no resistance.
Unlike men when you accidentally let that L word escape from your lips,
Then your waring, unlike lovers but more like bloods and crips.
They'd like to say you were falling but I'd say I tripped because love can't be genuine with all your little tricks
Like promises of forever mores.
And the thoughts of a weird but great combination like smores.
But putting forth my effort with you is something i hate to do,
Chores
And all your excitement
Bores
Is this what i have to encounter to be yours?
Overrated
Lust finally faded
And i see that we are interested in one another
But don't take interests in one anothers interest
What kind of love
Could you have for me?
If our passions are separately owned with no
Apostrophe
Leave now
Avoid catastrophe
And the consolation that your
Selfish ways
Never mastered me
Learning to write without a muse because there's not enough antidote in the world to heal my previous afflictions
My priors, my convictions.
I find my calm in the kitchen where chicken provides no resistance.
Unlike men when you accidentally let that L word escape from your lips,
Then your waring, unlike lovers but more like bloods and crips.
They'd like to say you were falling but I'd say I tripped because love can't be genuine with all your little tricks
Like promises of forever mores.
And the thoughts of a weird but great combination like smores.
But putting forth my effort with you is something i hate to do,
Chores
And all your excitement
Bores
Is this what i have to encounter to be yours?
Overrated
Lust finally faded
And i see that we are interested in one another
But don't take interests in one anothers interest
What kind of love
Could you have for me?
If our passions are separately owned with no
Apostrophe
Leave now
Avoid catastrophe
And the consolation that your
Selfish ways
Never mastered me
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