Getting Over...You

Trying to run from these feelings
Slip slide duck and hide away
But they are all around me
Beating me on the head
Hitting me in my back
Knocking the sh*t out of me
I know I look tough
But Man I'm tired
My breath is leaving me
I'm so exhausted
It hurts to breathe
Someone get me some help
Please...
Someone
Help
Me...

Madness

Going through emotions
So big
I want
To cry
Scream
Have magical powers
And bring my friend
Back
Senseless murder
Lives changed forever
I look
Down the street
See his empty home
Further down
I see his body
Laying there lifeless
I wanted to run
Shake him
Say
Get UP!
God knows better
All I can do is
Pray
Remember
Cry
Until
I heal.

RIP E.
© 2008 Shai Lynn K. Davis

Haiku for Robert Mugabe

That man on the subway cheers Mugabe
He also wears an R Kelly t-shirt
Mugabe was once a good man

little girl's face3-27-08

little girl's face

 

i have a little girl's face

flat cheeks

bone structures

like straight oval

but i am still a woman

to your eyes

look at me

those dark brown eyes

never lie

and you think, you said i am beautiful

oh my little babyface

i never

wore make up

only a smile

a twinkle in my eye

and the cuteness is written

all over me

 

©2008 Kai C.

BUT STILL...

Of course I knew that sooner or later you’d call.
I was simply hoping that just this once, your need for me
might show up faster than your want for me.

Oh I know, “there I go again, tripping off of things that don’t matter”.

But still,

I can’t seem to help it.
I imagine a world in which the unimaginable is the reality.
A world in which I am needed in your world, not just wanted.
A world where I am necessary, a requirement, the cog without which the machinery that is you can’t function.

Oh I know, “Being wanted is a great thing!”

but still,

the thought of being an integral part of your program,
of playing a role so critical the show can’t work in my absence,
of being the opinion without which your thoughts simply can’t be sorted…
Hypnotizes me and creates this chasm between happiness over being wanted by you
and despair over my lack of necessity in your world.

AND, that keeps us so far apart.

Oh I know all this, but still…


© Sharon J. All Rights Reserved 2008

Paul Robeson Juneteenth event...

This Friday in DC: see www.natturnersrevenge.blogspot.com

No Virgin

I've posted this on my personal blog - thought I'd share here;-).

I'm no Virgin...
but I've never been explored...

I am virgin territories of unexplored depths.

I've been touched.
But, rarely connected.

I've been held.
But, rarely sheltered.

I've been in conversations.
But, rarely conferred with.

I've been looked at.
But, rarely looked into.

I've been listened to.
But, rarely heard.

I've been kissed.
But, rarely distinguished.

I've danced with.
But, rarely worked through steps.

I've partied with.
But, rarely been party to the collaboration of committed partnership.

And Now,
I am being regenerated
By The Creator ... for the Brother
... who I will fight for...not with.
... who will be the first... to be my last.

C.A. Paige©April 2007

A Haiku for Chicago

R Kelly is free yet is not my poet
Hearts are too often swayed and fooled
My heart bleeds for St. Sabina's Catholic Church.

Father's day

Father's Day

dads

time to celebrates

the dads

cos they are the

special father figures

in our lives

dads, daddys, pops, papa,

grandpas, great granddads

they are all wonderful ones

they let us grow

strengthens us

worry us

protects us (especially their daughters)

loving us

Dads even stepdads, godfathers

who are the role models

to the good, good souls

good little souls

may bless these men who

enter our lives

may bless them who raise us up high

who walked their daughters down

the aisle to their future husbands

who taught their young sons how to

be a REAL MAN

may bless them all

Great dads

awesome dads

wonderful loving dads

and we must celebrates

this beautiful sweet day

to honor

our own fathers

in the

world

may bless them all!

~

©2008 Kai C.

Empty

I loved you
Still do
Fought with you
For you
Yet you needed space
Leaving me feeling displaced
But God has been here to replace
What you decided you could no longer give

As U Celebrate Father's Day...please look into your hearts...

The Fathers of the BD2Write team members raised & taught us well. We are a team of friends who are thankful that each of us has the love and influence of our Dads living with us each day, regardless of the fact that some of us no longer have their physical presence.

This blog concept of sharing our talents is a result of our Fathers' love. Opening this blog to strangers, giving each of us a forum in which to share and receive encouragement is our Fathers' love come to life on the Internet. Our Fathers did not grow up with the modern conveniences which we enjoy today. This Internet which we and our children will take for granted is a complete marvel to our parents. However, our Fathers grew up with a stronger inter-network of humane relationships built on respect and hard-work. Our Fathers often reminded us that we didn't need to like nor be close friends with everyone we worked with - but we had to respect them to get the job done.

Please, as you enjoy your Father's Day Weekends, take a moment to be silent and remember to respect everyone who takes the risk to share their work or comments here at Bloggers' Delight ... to Write.

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people

people

people who are

in love

must stay in love

if their hearts and souls

are stronger

as their minds and their whole bodies

God said we have a choice

to be with someone

or better off alone

cos love is not a fairy tale thing

it's real

the feelings we have is rare

we are people

human beings

stranger to stranger

just people who broke and mend

every piece of ourselves

for love

hearts breaking

promises ending

each day after day

we wonder

why love has come into

our lives so unexectedly

when our hearts race

feelings flow

before we knew,

love is always there to

savor us

sweetly like a

song

we keep on singing

oh we are people

all over the place

searching

for the beautiful things we want

in this world......

~

©2008 Kai C.