Poems from NailsOnAHeadboard
Wanting to show my kindness, intelligence, beauty
But fear that my confidence will receive the labels of pride and conceit
I'm just going...
Diamonds fill the sky
Just as they pierce her skin and become rubies
But she will never grace their beauty with her gaze
Leaves become the...
If I pull back the curtain
Will my mask then accept the form of mannequins
Perfectly styled and positioned
Only showing the best I can...
There's no one looking out
For the students at the "ghetto school".
We're taught to pass the standardized tests,
To think enough to make...
Warm hands drip with crimison sorrows.
These are not hands of murders
But protectors
Of land they had rightfully earned
To live with, not...