I Can’t Be With You Fast Enough When I was a little girl I ran to my parents after school And when I was excited I would twirl I never felt like a fool Because expressing my love Was the top of my list, upmost and above And as I aged My expressions diminished And my interactions became disengaged I was embarrassed by being childish I would rather die Than show my love to any guy Until one day I…
Little sister Her hair curls in ringlets of sun Shining bright from her head She lights up the home Gaps highlight her sweet smile Like army soldiers late to roll call Missing Incisors leave her with a slur And at night she waits for a fairy to trade tired teeth for money The weight of life stalks behind her But she’s too fast to catch She wins every race And every game Yet as her sun begins to frizz And…
Every Piece is a Memoir My mind squishes around my ideas I rip them from my head and splatter them on the paper Brain matter spills out words Like alphabet soup I etch my soul into every letter Graphite evolves Scribbled symbols inscripted with meanings begin to dance across my page My book is bound With the leather of my skin And signed by the blood in my veins Every part of my body helps create A story made of…
