Winter

It's cold and dark
and somewhere in my mind
I thought I was flowing
flowing towards something
but now I'm here

Into myself
although my humble-conceit is put aside
there are so many other things
reminding me how little I really am

Listening to the splatters of
what could be rain
my edges are cracking
and the sky is falling
which makes my face leak

Pieces of me are rearranged against my will
I pull out the dangling bits of fibers
falling from my guts
the pain is too real
the love too much
the touches too missing

And then I feel it
the heat
sapping away the soggy past
the heat
I know I will meet
as the light of Spring

Silence

Muffled thoughts speak no thing
Muffled moans speak no pleasure
Muffled screams speak no pain
I can no longer stand it

I want my thoughts to come from my throat like
water from broken hydrants
My moans to escape my chest
untamed
My screams to release my pain like raindrops

Let me take up the room
which belongs to my soul

Let me expand through all frequencies
with the vibrations of my voice

I'm not asking permission

I'm foretelling the future
So you aren't stunned by the sonic booms I leave behind
as I break through the veils

Muffled no more by the timidness stuck behind my breasts
Silence becomes my lover
that makes me manifest as One

A Way Out

Cornered
can't move this way
can't go back
Risk looking crazy
for not speaking
or becoming crazy if you don't

They enjoy it
the closer they come
oozing disingenuous feelings
like pus from gangrene
they enjoy the pain in your eyes

but don't hide it

Every whisper
wiping away your credibility
every eye looking you over
you know
they are tearing you down
to prepare the next victim

They plead the case of the innocent
getting others to perceive you
as being off balance
when others don't see
how they lay the full weight
of their treacherous intentions on you

Don't forget
they enjoy it
Don't forget
you are an object
Don't forget
there is a way out
even if it's hidden behind your tears

Everything

My love is like silence
full of everything worth it
leaving everything one
and alive

My life is rich and round
like a mother's belly
I count fingers and toes
though stretched minds
anticipating and laughing

My love is like nothing
leaving everything I am

Listen to Me

You are the breaks in my silence
I am the rhythm that bobs your head
the liquid that hits your hips and makes them loose
I am what makes your body lean
the earthquake to your nervous system
listen to me
you can't help but to listen to me
I am your meditation
I stop your thoughts
and leave you in bliss
I am the pulse and the slosh
of the blood through your veins
you create images of me in meter and rhyme
like metronomes trying to catch me in time
I am heard at the center of moans
You can find me in a kiss
and the breaking dawn
listen to me
you can't help but to listen to me

He Said

He said
he'll never leave
so I walk away
to get caught up
in the tangles of life
like fingers in the kitchen of nappy hair
searching for freedom
like the prayers of the dying

He said
he has patience
so I allow myself
to wither and die
knotted, black, and naked
like a summer peach tree
until the spring
where life will gather all the fruits
of my gestation

He said
Love
He said love
like he was familiar with Her curves
like he kisses Her lips
aches for Her earth
and found Her in me
So I expose my darkness
let the pain unfurl
and I wait

I wait because
I have never heard
a soul speak from the invisible
never saw how breath gave life
never knew the tangibility of a blessing
until
He said...