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by ZURI

Maybe just a little later on
They’d tell me
Maybe if we
Wait
Things will get
Better
Things
Will get better
Yet my hands only seem to get wetter
Maybe
Just
A little later on
Well I’m telling you
Don’t wait
Trust
You
Later
Is no better
Open your mouth
Speak our words
Breathe your heart
Take your air
Maybe just a little later
You tell me
Stories
Never told
Truth never professed
Yet you still feel the need to bury it in
My chest
Why do I have to carry
Your broken smiles and
Stolen cookie lies
The ones we promised lookin’ into mama’s eyes
I don’t have a choice
I hold the burdens you choose to pack in
So think twice
Before you bite your tongue
Before you sin
Before you look in the mirror at me with our
Biting bitter sweet
Lying grin
Can you not
Wait
For
Things
To
Get
Better?
Dry my hands
Instead of waiting
Just
A little
Later
Don’t tell me
To wait
I’ve been waiting

by ZURI

Just a little rough around the edges,
But I know your insides are smooth to the touch.
Heart of cold polished metal.
Rock hard with many different layers.

Took a chisel to the different places I saw fit,
And a lot of pieces fell apart,
But in my eyes, everything seemed to fit.

I was hoping all my plans
Were going to succeed,
And I felt the need to go deeper.
But I played the wrong cards.
I hit the deck too many times,
My chisel hit a smooth rock that I didn’t mean to shatter
And I got burned by the lava kept at your core.

But I loved you.
So, I stood there until I couldn’t take any more.
And now I can’t
I let go.
And you burned the cards of our life.

So, now I sit back, sipping tea,
And watch you destroy your protective shell and everything else.

by ZURI

My eyes are fogged from frosted rain.
My soul is like a polluted lake,
water like poison to those that drink.
You step up like a lost angel, step in and you will sink.
Your thoughts are abandoned,
like a foster child.
I can’t save you, it’s like your lost is the wild. My mind.
As you go deeper you start to think,
“Like, what am I looking for?”
But I swear if you dig deeper you’ll see.
I have something to give,
just get lost in me.
You wouldn’t believe all the stuff we could be.
Please…just give me the chance to be the real me.

by ZURI

Now its time to throw a vicious elbow at an unsuspecting Metta World Peace. Suspended for the rest, Maybe even banned. Wait. We were under the impression that everything had changed. World Peace now seems like a sad mockery of the term. That he had to be. When we spoke. I was blown away. Conviction, contrition, his self -awareness at the mistakes he made in Indiana. And the steps he had taken to get himself right. Maybe you had the same reactions I had when World Peace was leveled. That was the worst. The punch that almost killed. Altered, my life thereafter.

by ZURI

We are the ones
that lie
in your beds, or to your faces.

We just want to fill
your spaces,

okay ours,
maybe
both?

We never meant to hurt you.
but heartbreak?

is inevitable,
and when
if ever tears fall,

we are not the ones
to call, that is,
we are the heart
ripping love stealing

smile and sleep with your boyfriend,
those girls—

we are the liars
the dark that was left
behind but keep in mind

someone made us
this way.
We were once you
but that was yesterday.