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I stop but the world doesn't

Time stops The exhale of your breath lingers I hold my breath Not wanting to steal the air from you The air that was once yours The...

Damnit death

Why do you come so swiftly In a short 90 plus years of life And still it cuts so deeply Like they happened over night Why so unfair, and...

Somewhere between ‘My sunshine has come’ & ‘I’m all cried out.’

Grief is startling, and scary, and new, and painful, and changing, and it last as long as love does. Very rarely can we pinpoint a time...

grief

self

Dust Amongst Ideas

I thought of letting you go Because I held on for so long and produced nothing But you are mine and I cannot give you to someone else I...

Inherited Flaws

We know the flaws of our parents. The flaws that we may now possess. The flaws that we sometimes use as explanations for our character. A...

"Be human"

I celebrated a birthday in California for the first time. My 27th birthday was surrounded by people who choose me, daily. And they made...

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in-between

I find you in-between Breakups & heartaches You resurface Talking of a love that's past Regretting letting it go I find you in the...

These 20 somethings

“Reciprocity.” “Ain’t shit Ass niggas.” “Do your work.” “Meet me.” “Know your worth.” “My standards aren’t too high your efforts are too...

Searching for the right word

I tried to find a word that described the way you look at me The way you see me better than I see myself How your eyes hold curiosity but...

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love

God

But Winners Don't Quit, So Don't You Give Up

Numb. For hours I felt absolutely nothing. I just kept replaying the situation in my head all while asking myself, “Did that really just...

Untitled

What if all this time my reflection was pure light. By definition a reflection is a throwing back by a surface of light, what if I was...

A lesson on "the process"

I knew before the close of 2017 that my personal life theme for 2018 was ‘Decisions.’ I kept seeing the word everywhere and felt deeply...

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Empire

The thing about black people is, we are always attached to the situation. Whereas, our counterparts can be active for a moment but easily...

Imitation of Life

Lips. Lips so big you learn to hate them. Hate putting lipstick on because it attracts attention to your so called soup coolers. Hair....

race

a push for me and you, to do, together

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