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Sometimes I feel like chicken little
and no one else seems to see
that the sky is falling
and that I’m not strong enough to carry it.
Frantically fighting to get out of the way
Well I walked outside on the earth that remains
And let the greedy crows pick at my brain
With forgiveness and gratitude for their primitive ways
And with a thought lingering on the break of day
Poor ugly little girl
burn your lips with perfume
you mistaked as lipgloss
Poor naive little girl
just because he said
how beautiful you were
you have him the key
to your now
broken
Sense
September 7, 2018 ~ Friday
Little lips
Little bits of me, the tips
Of where all words begin and end
Little place to hide my insides
Exposed only a little
I tell myself in summer
In the scorches of
August
I tell myself stories
About your smile
Tell myself lies
About tomorrow
And the next day
Little girl, now don't be sad,
I understand your pain,
How you feel there's no way out,
That you have gone insane.
Lonesome, sat the retched monsterDay in - day outFew stopped to see himOnly to poke, prod, and teaseVisitors began to extinguishHe stared, longingly, at his containment cell
You said goodbye.
I said wait why?
When i needed you the most
That's when you bounce the most.
All I ever wanted was to talk.
All you ever wanted was to walk.
Walk in front of me.
Walk behind me.
Shafts of light shatter the morning skyBeyond the horizon, black clouds loom Juxtaposed seriously
The effervescence of dew shines underfootThe mellifluous patter of feet Working harmoniously
Little Miss Magic of sweet song and sound. Little Miss Magic of perfect balance and crown. Little Miss Magic of passion and care. Little Miss Magic consumed by love and redacted of fear.
Once upon a time
In a land of song and rhyme
Was a girl named Little Red
With a hood upon her head
Who traveled through the wood
Carrying all the cookies that she could
To Grandma’s comfy home
Once upon a time the three little pigs.
The three little pigs were old enough to go to college.
I have a family.
I have a home.
You can try to break me down,
but I'm never alone.
I have a family.
I have a home.
I may not look it,
but I can hold my own.
My little sister loved eggs.
Every time we went over to Aunt Mary’s house,
With her coops of cocks and chickens,
She had to see some freshly laid
Eggs.
Little Worries
“Do what’s right and never lie.” I say
“Why, when he’s big and mean?” She ask.
“Little voices can do big things.” I say
“Little voices get hurt too,” she says.
Little blue eyes, looking up at me
You gaze and I wonder what you'll be
You're hand wrapped around my finger tight
I promise to hold you through the darkest nights
Little blue eyes, so full of dreams
Twinkle, twinkle, little star
How I wonder how you are.
Since no one seems to ask if you're alright;
Are you okay, will you live to shine another night?
Up above a world you once knew,
Smile on my face
5, 6, 7, 8
Cheerleading.
It's in my blood.
12 years of it.
12 entire years of my life.
12 years of pom poms,
dancing,
cheering on the crowd.
I write to the Little Girl in the Future.
In case you have forgotten...
In case you have forgotten the beauty of the swirling passions of the primitive past
I wonder if anything in life goes according to plan
Or if there will always be these little bumps
The kinks in the hose that won’t come undone
In a white colored coffin the baby lay,
Her mother had wept the night away.
Not feeling her dying breath,
With her clasped to her mothers chest.
She prayed to keep,
Your scent just suffocates me,
bringing me down into a hole deep and dark.
Why would you do this?
Your warm body was once mine,
keeping me from freezing at night.
Why did you leave?
Little girl in the photo
where will you go?
will you sweep it beneath?
will you go with the flow?
will you camofauge
in with the rest?
will you set yourself apart
and do what is best?
Why must happiness be so hard but grief and hatred so great?
Why must we learn or except our fate
I feel like crying, I feel like dyeing
I was to young to deal.
Started not to feel.
Never took the time to heal.
Somehow it didn't feel real.
I was to young to see.
Thought it was apart of being me.
Enthralled by your unbounded beauty
That I admire all seven days a sennight,
It is me that you do not see;
My heart pounds madly at your mere sight.
Although we descend from people of conflicting histories,
Little stream through the woods
How sad and lonely you must be
Tired too though many can’t see
You fight and fight to make it through
And one day when you finally do
In the big ocean you will be
My Black is Beautiful, My Black is free
Thanks to all of the Blacks that came before me
Three years old no father killed by the life he lived
Please little black girl don’t cry
I reached but he wasn't there
How doth the little moth
Fly high up in the sky?
Flitting gently from light to light
It seems to find pleasure and delight.
How does he fly with so llittle care?
Clumsy and such, but STILL doesn't care
On a small sunshine covered leaf
A little white egg rests,
Listening to the words of the wind
And waiting to begin earth’s tests.
A million times I’ve told you before
Not to travel alone at dark
It’s impossible to even the score
For there’s a beast within the park
It’s eating the livestock
It’s eating your kin
My little lady,
Is going to work today.
Dressed in her Sunday's Best,
As she trots down Avenue A.
She'll sit at a bench,
For a near twelve hour day,
Yet still will only make,
Nearly half of my pay.
Stink like a bear stuck on a tree trunk
Baby you smell like a nasty payment
Wishing you had soap you couldn't buy
Old bread in your Ice box
Ted in your knee trunks
Girl your boyfriend got a stinky job
