“I want to consume the world. Delve into her nuances Painstakingly lure complacent stars into wide unfathomable zones. I want to feed this earth her pleasures Fatten her up I want her to sweat that sweet nectar through her pores I want to slice open the belly of the beast Watch the essence of life…
Tag: poetry
I said to Mama I said
I said to Mama I said I wanna orbit the moon. Mama always told me I’d master the galaxy. I said to her: “Mama I wanna be a connoisseur”. She said you are the flavor of life. Mama asked me “Baby, what do you wanna be?” I said Mama I wanna be me. She told…
I am special. Specially in limbo
I’m special. The kind of special that is housed in asylums The kind that flitters in and out of your life like a butterfly at the edge of your peripheral I’m the special that paints The Starry Night The Freemasonry special that founds contemporary civilization While identified, evaluated, influenced and modified, my special remains stoic…
The expectations we live with & decimate
I’m not the only kid who grew up this way surrounded by people who used to say that rhyme about sticks and stones as if broken bones hurt more than the names we got called and we got called them all so we grew up believing no one would ever fall in love with us that we’d…
The day worth dying for
Fall and rise again Let boy become man Baby girl, rise this day. Come what may We strive and we push and pray Muscles taunt with anxiety Stretch to form, beauty captivated, owned. Blood and soil Let what we live for be etched and carved To be remembered, read and strewn On the banks of…