SEEK Tell me what you want to hear And I’ll whisper those words in your ear Tell me how maybe I might Say the words that make your soul ignite Tell me of that secret place I can touch that makes your heart race Or you can hide and I will seek And search and…

WOMAN A woman Is an endless stream A construct Beholden to the ideologies of men And circumstances She has been confined to the walls of her home She has had no say in the world around her She has been a slave to men and religion I am a woman An endless stream Deconstructed No…

A TIME OF YOUTH I have not forgotten The taste of your lips Or the smell Of your skin Nor the feel of your hands Upon my hips You are written on my soul Deep within I travel there often To reminisce and remember A time of youth And unspoken love Nothing has equaled The…

ON THE COAST My lips smile the most When I am on the coast With my feet in the shallows Listening to the waves hum Watching seagulls sky dance And pipers prance While leaving their prints in the sand Though I am naturally tanned I love to bathe in the sun Because it is like…

SILENT …and then I fell in love But that was not the plan We were only ever Meant to be lovers You and I How can I go on When my heart Is in such distress I’ll have to make a choice I can keep silent And we can continue This lover’s soiree Or I…

SOUL YEARNING If love doesn’t hurt Then what is This ache in my heart If it doesn’t ease soon I fear my heart May depart From within my chest Grow feet and run To the edge Of the earth Where the sidewalk ends And there is no dearth Of love or kindness When will this…

PARALLEL He placed a picture Into my hand And before I could Even understand The going ons Inside my head My heart ran away And I could barely stand My knees buckled And I lost my breath It was a moment More cruel than death For, I saw the life We could have had Flash…

in HEAVEN Speak to me As you spoke to me In heaven When you were five And I was seven Do you recall those nights When our souls would meet And we walked hand in hand Down golden streets We didn’t have a Care in the world You were the boy that I loved And…

MY VOICE The external voice Inside my head Is so loud That I fear My voice May be dead But how can something That has never thrived Be without life? Its only known The edge Of a serrated knife Whose teeth have Caught and ripped And sliced Me into individual pieces Of someone else’s creation…

CLAN Define me as an individual Not by the color of my skin I am more than my covering I am diverse in Many ways And my personality Comes in different shades Not just of browns But of reds and blues Pinks and greens And yellows, too I am every shade known And unknown to…