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  • Speak Girl, Speak

    You have a voice. You must find it. Your voice is powerful. You must use it. You are young. You are precious. You are a girl. I care about you. When you don’t speak I know what this means. I encourage you And I push you To speak out child OPEN YOUR MOUTH You won’t…

  • Down Time

    The mask waddles around leaving its paw prints, As it scopes the garbage cans and porch for food. It commits peccadilloes all the time when it strikes, Tearing up bags and straying trash; making a mess. My propinquity shows in my subtle observations, Of the sun’s rays peaking down through the clouds. The kits appearing…

  • Kissing Ink

    I am a storyteller. I have been kissed, I have been baptized, By a stamp of distinction. Every stencil, every tracing, Every coloring and shading, Every detail, every stroking, Tells a unique story about me. I am liberated; I am alive. I’ve emerged from my cocoon. I am creative; I am artistic, I’ve embodied my…

  • The Silence Within

    My insides bleed with anger, Flowing outside as salty tears, Excreting onto my face. Nobody knows the pain, The ache, the unhappiness, Dwelling within me. Times like these come, Dealing with them is a bitch, Sometimes, there’s one way. Only one way to escape, The prison of failed dreams, Unused and wasted talents. Others call…

  • Testify

    I see you now. I have been stripped. I have no more Preconceived notions, Century old stereotypes, Religious mores, Chauvinistic attitudes. There are no barriers Blocking my view, No invisible shields, Nothing. I don’t see your class status, I don’t see your gender, I don’t see your color, I only see you. A human. A…

  • Destroy It

    The heavy sledgehammer crashes down hard on the flexible glass waiting to be shattered. Destroy it into pieces, make it suffer well. It is causing pain. This glass hurts you. Your soul, your heart, needs this caustic release. The glass has consumed and deceived you with lies for so long, too long. Crush it and…

  • Quiet Beneath the Stars

    She skulks over to next door in night’s darkness Surprisingly calm and reserved with a mission A brown and white calico kitten is trapped, Needing a release from its cold captivity, from uncaring, abusive owners that don’t Properly care for the two-week-old angel. The human snatches the kitten up swiftly. In response, it starving and…

  • Things To Do During Difficult Time

    I love, live, work and exist in a place where the coronavirus was discovered and found, China. This time has been frightening, unsettling, freaky and just downright creepy at times. What can one do during a time when movement to various places is restricted and not recommended? I have a suggestion of what can be…

  • Apology to Wild Animals

    What have the humans done? The greed of money and power Made them ravenous for you. You do not belong trapped inside many cages swimming in filth and disgusting, dirty containers filled with slime and grime as you await to be picked, bought, slaughtered, gutted and enjoyed by greedy humans indulging in tasting a “novelty”…

  • Yearning Heart

    My heart longs for the sweet drippings of honesty, dignity, strength and class present in the music of life, tastes of the spirit, Smells of the heart. The shame of it all, is that I must imagine, what this would be like, because time is a filter beyond our souls and minds of what is…