what if the colonizer in me took over and I declared manifest destiny on every man I fancied, even if he was taken what if I didnβt care about the other woman and was a completely selfish bitch and become an expert homewrecker
Check your privilege at the door every single white person who comes asking for my opinion I canβt be your agreeable POC anymore
Check your privilege at the door Iβm not the voice for my community with you, certain topics I canβt explore donβt use me as another learning opportunity
one day in bed and my son acts like its the end of the world demands I get up and act like an adult like the mother heβs used to seeing but in defiance, I stay in bed reading poetry and allow the muse to come and allow me to pour out of me and land on paper for once I wonβt allow the patriarchy define how I should act, who I should be for once I allow the poet me to be my first priority
His love made her glow she shone, shone, shone it was her happy ending after a lifetime of misunderstanding it was the sunshine she needed after so many sad ballads it was beautiful,it was lovely it was the ultimate love story
feet washed and kissed in front of others everyone calls her blessed and lucky no one knows about the scars she hides beneath her lilac modest dress no one believes her if she told them what a monster he was behind closed doors
I shouldnβt wish death upon anyone but I wish death upon you the minute your child posted about your open heart surgery and immediately , it makes sense, a man with a weak mind has an even weaker heart I shouldnβt wish death upon anyone but I wish death upon you couldnβt you die on the operating table? you never deserved your life with your beautiful children you-who made me carry the burden of shame and guilt for years and years I shouldnβt wish death upon anyone but I wish death upon you you-who desecrated my morality and ethics through your domestic authority I shouldnβt wish death upon anyone but I wish death upon you because someone like doesnβt deserve to breathe the same breath of real human beings
Cowboy with your boots and maga hat Stay away from me forget I ever existed forget that once upon a time I was your wendy to your peter forget I always flew to you when you texted me
I should go back to where I come from and where is that exactly here -is the only real home I’ve ever known here – is where all of my babies were born here- is where I’ve loved and I’ve mourned so where is my place because anywhere else feels like a home unknown
hot summer nights on your porch meant the world to me and inspired an unusual amount of poems Iβm starting to think that writing poems is how I hold onto the magic of our memories
longing to escape responsibility of my suburban life I became 21 again and did drugs and fucked stranger men I never meant any harm, I just wanted to know what it was like to not be looked at as someoneβs mother, someoneβs wife
in total darkness I fell for a while for a year I didnβt listen to music For a year I donβt remember being a mom and while I still function and went to work Several years later I realize how I had forgotten all about the darkness I had fallen in a while ago my mind blocked it in an attempt to move on in an attempt to heal
kept the dead rose petals along with your note as long as I could it was the first time a man had acknowledged me worthy enough of a rose and at 16, that was everything
I donβt want to but have to be the boss the boss of my family the boss in my relationships the boss of my life it sucks to take charge and dominate all of the spaces it sucks to have so many responsibilities thrust upon me it sucks to always have to shrink myself for egos it sucks to never be in a space where for once I can be soft
not much of choice, get married or become a whore at 19, she was trapped between a sword and another sword either way sheβs trapped and kept away from the life she really wanted to live either way, her fate would be sealed with her ink of shame