Humanity: Raw & Unfiltered
Daddy always said, don’t start fights. He said, if I hear you’ve been starting fights at school you’re going to be in big trouble, little miss. Daddy always said, don’t start fights, but if someone starts with you; he said, if someone lays hands on you – Daddy always said, Read more
there you are still standing defiant and victorious after the firefights as beautiful as ever resilient and glorious precious wrinkles and scars intact piercing eyes shining a survivor’s radiance external courageous love covering internal bruises a living breathing smiling and laughing explanation of why the Muses were women every sway of your body Read more
You’re disappointed Yet I love you still My hair is too dark Yet I love you still My body is never perfect Yet I love you still Why are you never happy? When will I win your heart? You never have time Yet I love you still You always find Read more
I think, (perhaps) it was when you played my heart as yet another marble in a circle. Lining your shooter, you knuckled down – carelessly – finding Me inside the chalk dust. I was just another glass duck, (nothing important to add to your collection) No matter. You were playing Read more
I wouldn’t refer to my first time as fire. But after reading the diary of 13-year-old me (got laid, I recorded for posterity), father invited pastor to our living room to agree over coffee that I am sexually dysfunctional. Just before I turned 14, mother waved in my face the Read more
There’s a rhythmic booming sound It’s a fist banging against at a door while someone cowers in the corner of the room on the other side Hoping the lock will hold as the wood shivers with the pounding… No, he assures me, it’s just some hammering or someone on the Read more
