The Gamut

Soft day, be velvet soft,

My true love approaches,

Look you bright, you dusty sun,

Array your golden coaches.

Soft you wind, be soft as silk

My true love is speaking.

Hold you birds, your silver throats,

His golden voice I’m seeking.

Come you death, in haste, do come

My shroud of black be weaving,

Quiet my heart, be deadly quiet,

My true love is leaving.

–Maya Angelou

Melted

My baby don’t love me no more

maybe he never did

i melted

into the floorboards waiting

for him to come home

comb through the knots

in our relationship

married to my hair

i cut it

out, cancerous strands grew

there from where he’d grab

dig his fingers deep into the roots

then pull

snatch

take

all they do is take

your breasts your likeness your body is gone in an instant

without so much as a hand hold

cuckholded lacily held yesterdays

where’s yesterday

he wont even look at me anymore

crawling past the door

towards another chest

but i need to love to want him

don’t know if it made a difference

now its just

wanting leaving the wanted with longing

Pray for me I’ve seen too much

of these buh bye boys to men

to children.

 

 

 

clouds

we’re flying high 

drunk off clouds 

spiraling through

turbulence

i know you, stranger

familiar prick

don’t stain the sky red

before the sunset

let’s just cruise at this altitude

close eyes

free hair

wind whip through outstretched fingertips

sip serenity together

flocking with feathers

and all that jazz 

Love And Hip-Hop

Silence makes her moans more prevalent in my mind.

Her past time filled with filth.

Aborted wombs, tombs I lie in called home.

Her moan a pop record played on repeat.

Niggerdly I dance to the beat.
Niggerdly I dance to the beat.
Niggerdly I dance to the beat.

–Yannick C. Wallace