Fatherless
You set the stage then vacated but your shadow still eclipses me.
Your path or mine, them lines are blurred.
I want to walk in your footsteps but who am I personally?
I took my mind from my body and thought how come we never spoke but I’m always talking to you.
I don't cry but its like I'm always shedding tears for you.
I started balling so we can be closer.
Looking to stands but every time, your seat empty.
Deep down, I'm empty.
Suppose to be here but shots rang out.
Your bloody body, dropping, replaying like it’s the gamer winner.
Another black fatherless child.
It’s endless.
Senseless.
They asking why I’m so distant.
You was put in hearse before I learned how to mourn.
I’m still so torn.
Colorist or preferences
Hiding behind what they prefer
Knowing deep down they can’t stand someone of a less shade.
This goes back when we were slaves or when we were in caves.
When our pigment protected against the suns rays.
As the sun caressed our skin with elegance.
The glow of gods and goddesses.
Maybe they hated it.
So they punish.
Bashed it until we lost pride if it.
Losing our ancestral essence.
We were Kings and Queens but now they only see us as good in the sheets.
Or anger at its peak.
It’s no in between.
Never see what’s underneath.
We’re human beings.
Regardless of what they see.
Sensation
I miss your sensation but it’s gone like plantation for the slaving.
I’m caving off this Hennessy.
Dreaming of your canopy.
Losing my sanity cause I want you here with me after what you did to me.
Feeling so stupidly cause I’m fluent in this misery.
Asking why pain so glittery.
It tempted me now I can’t be free.
You got the to deed to me.
I can’t escape the need to fight it like creed.
I hardly get any sleep.
Thinking of you when you out in the streets.
I was all for you but wasn’t for me.
Tell me three completely random things about yourself.
I’m 6’4, a psychology major and I want to bring people together through writing!
Diamonds
My emotions in a gutter.
Struggling to recover but I smile, it stop all the questions.
They can’t relate to the hurting of my essence.
Miss using my presence.
Saying I’m precious but only when I have blessings.
Never when I’m looking for guidance.
I’m sinking under the weight of the world.
All this pressure but can’t make diamonds.
Never lose sight
Black is beauty.
Dark is elegant.
Loving how the sun bounce of your melanin.
What you telling em. Radiant, nothing less than.
No degrading, only praising.
Severance for mental separation.
For the years looking for acceptance, second guessing.
You’re a blessing and you shine every second.
Relish in your skin.
You are cherished.
Never change for someone’s prejudice.
Endless Cycle
You hurt me and I hurt the next.
It’s how the game goes.
It flows with no remorse.
Leaving hearts in parts.
All out of sorts.
Love is an art but pierced in the process.
Everyone moving on without healing from the ex, hurting everybody next.
It’s an endless cycle; different variables.
Truly love
My phone don’t ring but everybody loves me.
When I’m distant, all I hear I’m moving funny.
Questioning my silence but my body language speaks loudly.
If you loved me you would see that my mind is cloudy.
That my eyes is forecast for rain but I’m forcing delays.
That my energy is off it’s relay.
That my demons are having a field day.
I can’t shake the thoughts I’m having these days but I aspect someone who loves me to detect.
Sometimes you have to detach to reattach.
Isolate to medicate but no one understands that.
They want you to shine through all your darkness.
Evaluate them while you’re deteriorating on the inside but they love you.
How could you love me and not sense my imbalance.
Maybe it’s the mask I’m wearing but I thought love can conquer all.
Why couldn’t your love slip through the cracks?
Have a flanking attack or is that to much to ask?
Maybe you don’t truly love me.
This was so beautiful
dear daughter, this is for the day when you first stand in the shower, with eyes producing more water than the shower itself, and try to scrub your skin off. using all your might as if they were the chains you were once bound too and desperately need to free yourself from. firstly honey, your black is neither burden nor boundary it is a key that reveals so many treasures if you’d just persevere until you find the right doors. what are you trying to do with your caramel coloured skin of soft buttery texture that has been churned through generations of hardships to produce this fine product of supreme quality called you? don’t you know your hair is an enchanted forest, each kink and curl creating it’s own unique magic to keep your well deserved crown in place? my baby, you are royalty and ignore the white’s dictionary definition of humility, it is not stripping yourself of your crown to avoid being the subject of jealously and envy. that big, beautiful forehead of yours is filled with a lifetime of substantial knowledge and always be proud of your luscious lips that reflect the enormity of love you have to share. don’t be afraid of your already thick thighs in preparation for the day they become your own daughter’s pillow to cry into and confess all her secrets too. finally my star, have i not always showed you how bright you glow, so why did you allow them to burn you out? if i could not make you love yourself, open your eyes to see how beautiful you truly are then how could you give them permission to teach you how to hate your black then learn the lesson so well?
Lost
I lost the hunger but still have the love.
Split between the two.
Who I was and who I am.
Trying to find a common, that area filled with caution.
Is that trauma or am I just hiding ?
Hiding from the fact I can’t reach certain heights.
Is this lack of preparation or perspective ?
Im destined but my story is still being written.
I can choose any path but I don’t have no sense of direction.
I am lost.

My energy is priceless but lately I been letting everyone pouch in like Tyson.
I was clueless that I was investing in sourceless Entities.
Allowing deposits from insignificant funds when I been giving out fortunes.
Extortion from the people I hold dear.
Depleting my shares for who would vanish when I need little bit care.
I been facing despair when no one is near.
I’ve become accustom to disappearing instead of asking for help cause for me, no one else is truly there.
A burden I came to bear but still lend a hand when I hear someone else cries.
Maybe it’s how I was raised.
My mother instilling me with generous ways.
Or I’m just a people pleaser that doesn’t know how to say no.
The most loyal or most stupidest.
A stewardess in pleasing but never in dismissing.
Maybe it’s a mission from divinity.
Embedding a large amount of empathy within me.
A coping mechanism to avoid my own vacancy.
Steadily engulfing myself in everyone else’s misery.
Knowingly knowing that the energy I receive take toll on me but I continue to indulge in things that’s no good for me.
I’m the biggest danger to me then any weapon formed against me.
Self inflected wounds that could of been avoided.
Mental trauma that still need to be sorted before else where involvement.
I just want to be dormant but everybody keep calling.