Poems from DeceptiveCheese
Constantly torn between my need to feel like I'm living my life right as an upstanding citizen and by my primal monkey brain need to run away and live in a tree with the fairies.
It has been a long time
Since the sun smiled,
Honored in the corners of my pictures by the yellowest crayon.
It has been a long time
Since...
My father was a terrorist.
He did not wear a turban,
nor did he worship Allah,
nor was his skin brown like the sun kissed sands of Arabia....
My Depression and my Anxiety are in an epic love affair.
They do majestic flamenco dances filled with passion,
as they run into the other,...
My mouth is a cave of deceit.
It has little teeth like rocks which’ll tell you
that blue eyeshadow really works for you,
and a serpentine...
For someone who spoke fluent English,
I didn’t know how to say a lot of things.
Words that, in the mouths of others,
flowed like tropical...