you are both gone but your hands are upon my shoulders
Category Archives: long may she reign
my two mothers are set in heaven now
you are not suffering any more you are free you have joined your brothers, your sisters your mother, your father your son, your daughter
smite me down
a gentle reminder to my being that you have made it this far you have been broken, bruised, and bled but you are not dead, not by you or anything else you will persevere, you will survive to the next day, next week, next month, next year it will take god to kill you, bitch
fragile heart
i love you i love you in the sunset when i can’t hide my smile i love you i love you in the storm, when we are confined to small spaces i love you i love you when we wander in the wild, finally free i love you
old wounds take time
the first step to loving someone else is to love yourself
living
i don’t want to force myself to live for other people for other people who do not understand me or don’t even care so don’t even say that i should live for my blood or live for my friends i want to live for me
worship
place a crown of iron thorns on my head adorn my fingers with rings of shimmering silver dress me in darkness, my armor and my beauty on one braid the threaded gold that grows from my skull into braids thicker than ropes, ropes of my victories worship me the way i deserve after all thatContinue reading “worship”
queen’s art
queen’s art the art of being made of stone unmeasurable elegance, sculpted for perfection emotionless, carved to rule and please within the stone waiting to to reign waiting for the old king who made her made of stone to fall away
lovers of war
lover you and i were meant for swords in our hands to crush the skulls of those who defied us to paint ourselves in colors of blood and onyx to conquer those and show them the light we were not meant to pretend that we ever cared
2021
strangely enough i did not write a poem at the start of 2021 i was happy and in the arms of the one i love a midnight where i did not weep but loved 2020 took and took my family, my freedom, and so much more it took a pandemic for me to realize thingsContinue reading “2021”
a poet's confessional 