Poems from JanuaryEmbers
I have a dream
Like the one King had all those years ago
When racism wrapped around black lives
Like a boa constrictor
Trying to choke out...
I've only had you for one class
Years ago
Seems like ages
And yet
When I stepped out of your class
You stepped into my heart
More than...
I know you weren't built for me, but
Damn,
Can you give me a bone?
I was born with not one, not two, but three minority identifiers:
Black...
Babbling brooks surround me.
Cacophony smothers me
In my self-induced coma.
There's no escape.
I am lost in these mazes
That interchange...
I stand with an ocean before me,
Buzzing fish in schools while I'm lonely.
Then the mirror with my eyes showing woods
Filled with should've...