Moral Imperfections
Evolution
You love me so much
lifetime lifeline
lost my way
Disappear daily
Guilt fear cling climb
My voice abandoned
Do not recognize
mirror image
l miss me and you
let’s take our love with us.
Ark of Return*
Legacy of slavery
Stings stains shadows
Sorrow weeps tears gush
Muffle chorus of screams
Their lives death sentence
Ancestral truth lifts veil
My heart breaks heals
My breath stops starts
In Solemn space
Spread our wings
Fly soar
Return.
*United Nations permanent marble memorial/New York City, 2015
Burn this Place Down
Pain layered inside bone
stick to skin
rides bare back
memories crochet
blood stained words
silence still born
stayed together
secrets sleep
chose death
born under stairs
candle light flickers
dot darkness
burn this house down
ancestors’ voices call out
gut everything
ask for forgiveness
chance for reckoning
raise head eyes
scorched earth
turns inside out
ashes grow wings
mayday mayday
possibilities kneel
Pray.
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