Category: Poetry

  • THE WAY I AM

    by ANDRE

    The clothes I wear. The way that I act. The way I express myself. I show what I am all about. I am me. I wouldn’t want to be anyone else. I like to skip. I like to dance. That’s just me. You might be different, I’m all me. I like to be crazy. I show who I really am. Why would I hide me and who I want to be? I write differently. No one is like me. I’m one of a kind. I am unique. I love myself. I don’t care how others think about me. I like to write. I love math. I am a total math geek. So don’t judge , because i’ll always be me.

  • I DON’T BELIEVE IN DEATH

    by DAIZJHA

    I don’t believe in death.

    I believe in new beginnings.

    Honesty, and exploring now, so I know what I like so I can do it again “later.” I believe in communication through other lives, times and realms as you may say. Friends i’ve yet to meet but…met before. Giving me a sense of purpose because I know what this world holds.

    Abuse, cruelty, girls and boys craving approval from their loved ones, creeps through me like a bug, etches itself on me like a spider. Infecting and filling my head, my soul like the rank, top class rank scent of sauerkraut.

    I throw this place in denial because it’s so vile. Money rules this place. Judgement changes your pace and consequence changes your face because you’re scared. Cuddling the few things you haven’t given up yet.

    Animals of humans tearing through you like wolves and turning you into their food that i’ll find the family of sin in ’em. Spending time with the ones you “love” became a task and now you have to ask yourself why you let us bend it.

    I am my and us is not, you are you and should live that way but you’re raised to bend and flex with Earth so you don’t get hurt. Soot on ya face, you try to dig but the damn devils pull you back inward you’re climbing again.

    Climbing to be free, to be, to see what i see, to hold the key i hold, to walk through the door I’ve seen but you have not her. I’ll give you the key “self-worth,” “self-worth,” “self-worth” to know your king and not a damn human should strike war in you.

    Self-worth to know a tell instead of show tell and go to hell because you lied, because you tried to hide what was inside. Self-worth. Power don’t make you, fame won’t break  you, lack of understanding will rape you… of what you deserve. Throw a fat “F U” at the guy next to you cause we don’t bend for no one.

     

  • THE FAMILY TREE

    by KYLA

    The darkened solstice and then there were none. All that you know is melted and gone.

    The ashes of rain, the bloodshed and pain. The secret room, a palace of doom. The vertical blue, crystal tears and the heads of prisoners on a spear. The burst of seed, the hanging of greed. All fate is bound by the family tree.

    Blood on the seal, the darkness arrives, world to appeal, an apocalypse thrives. Bound by a curse, it hangs by a thread, the fall of the mobsters, the rise of the dead. The honor of justice, the state of the free. All fate is bound by the family tree.

    Fire in the eyes, and say your goodbyes. The scythe is swinging, you’re in for a reaping. The metal is hot, the warmth is sweet, forgive and forget or die and retreat. The symbol of love, family, tragedy. All fate is bound by the family tree.

    The sky is dark, marked by futile cries. Love is lost as all light dies. The Alpha and Omega, beginning and end, a dark destiny holds, then good will ascend. Death is unavoidable, the cries and the pleas. All fate is bound by the family tree.

  • WHY A BIRD FLIES THROUGH A HURRICANE

    by KYLA

    I want to write.
    I want to see.
    I want to understand.
    I want to fly free.
    I want to have a finch.
    I want to smack the Grinch.
    I want to see the world.
    I want to see a hurricane swirl.
    I want to live.
    I want to be free.
    But most of all,
    I want to be me.

  • YOU WERE WRONG

    by DAIZJHA

    You were wrong
    You were wrong about me when you said I was dumb
    You were wrong when you hurt that me that couldn’t defend herself
    You were wrong when you said I was ugly wrong when you said I’m “black” wrong when you swore I couldn’t amount to anything wrong when you pushed me down
    You were wrong
    You were wrong when you said no one cared
    You were wrong

    I’m one of the most intelligent females you’ll ever meet
    I can knock down any man
    I’m a beautiful gorgeous flawless black woman whose voice makes friends whose heart is big and hearty.
    I’m brown not black I’m that chocolate snack you love so much
    I have interned for the senate I’ve met the governor the mayor and they both owe me favors

    You’ll never knock me off my stand because I will get back up

    I’m cared for by so many my funeral would hold 2 college campuses

    You were wrong
    You were wrong
    You were wrong