You're so Wonderful
As you seem awed & smooth sailing
Honesty the Third Degree,
Could you change my Mold? My Facade?
My Trail of Crumbled Hearts?
******, Such & Such
Unrecognized, Unfamiliar Pathway
How I wish it was an expressway
Dragging me down
Before you take me home

Hey, I gotta deal with trauma before it deals with me
I think about you often but not all the time
What are you like when emotions arise?
And how do you look like when you rise?

So yeah, I dream about you
But not every night
Gotta know your strength when you open a jar
You know the maps of the world seem so dual
So what if I'm waiting until you aren't so far

See, I wonder about you sometimes
But I wouldn't choose you over me
Think what you think
But I wouldn't change a thing

Yeah, I know.
Yet, I'm still here.
While you're so chill and cute in my mind.

You aren’t ready
But when you are come and find me
My majestic maroon
By the bay
Throwing out stormi for new gold
My quicksilver
Sitting by the Cherry blossoms below
The sun ray's enlight tis season
Some kinda green sheen
Beats beating through my ears
I was just feeling senseless
Floating like engine oil
Painting groundless
Cooking up magic potions
Cause I’m so baseless
Can you be fearless, a little senseless
My wintergreen dream
Cause life can be so stubborn and sobering
So I’m maybe not a little tamales
A shiny shamrock
I am certain sure
You’ll be a satisfying solid sound
A cinnamon stain
Very compelling and convincing
A polished pine
Because you are so well grounded
Rose quarters are envious
So we have never met
But can we have a cup of coffee?

Just like the spots on my bedroom floor
And the coffee I drop
No matter how slowly I walk
I slip & spill
Why do you always make me feel
Is there something more I need?
So I keep tripping and splashing
because that is all I know
I plan to dive in to get to know you
Like I know every split end of my own
Then maybe just maybe
you’ll turn into crystal clear liquid gold
You are just water to me
But I wish you could purify me
Only you are coffee
And you ever only always stain

He steps on my toes
You could say I have the whoa's
When kisses blow
I never met someone like you
You smell of good things
Some of my favorite things
Spill em into pieces
Show me something only phases can see
I'm too weak
My heart can't heal
I can't part ways
I just can't deal
Just ask me again
So I can finally say
All the things I could
Never say.

What a child
He knows how to play
He speaks in silence
Holds his tongue
His eyes read worlds of wonder
He's feeling the pressure to
Become now a man
But don't forget my dear
Don't fear and learn to steer
Honor yourself
Feel those feelings
Don't push them away
Trust yourself
You were so authentic that day
I wish you well
And hope you stress
Some time to play

He was a killer
He’d never call himself a manipulator
He once called her Aphrodite
Now he'd call her a stealer

He was a smooth dancer,
He did it for pay until it became less for play
He was a smooth talker
He always knew what to say
How to say it
He wrote them in poems
Hoping she'd read between them
But she chose to never see

He saw himself as selfless
But why did he portray and play
She was Coquette
He was a fool, so he'd lose
She saw herself in search of something pure
Gravity pulled her to another
Someone she could never forget

Now I can't wait to forget you
But still I have love for you
Wish you'd find love within you

He was a book of burned pages
While She was a firecracker
Setting fire to all pages that came her way.

Walls cover my heart
Walls shove me apart
Speak in honor
Just a girl who is letting go

So nice, so nice
You seem so nice
Once nice, once nice
They seem like lies
So, I guess I'm not that nice
Sit at tables of high opinions and high voices
I just want to runway
They all seem so nice
Not at all superior

I'm just my father's daughter
He showed me how to stand my ground
Well, I guess we aren't that nice

I am resisting the intrigue
Nodding off to the idea of it
Apprehension in entertaining the idea
I am speculating it will not be like nails on a chalkboard
Still dreading to flirt with the theory
Concentration like a bullet to my head
A circus of misery minds.

Aiming with my silver sword, ready to combat
My defenses drop, not a soul present
Perhaps a withdrawal?
I find not a body and face but mine
Timid to smile
Could this be a pleasing soft affair?

Hey, I’m Arcadya. And I’m addicted to happiness & I don’t like to cry. Though, I have cried in the face of happiness more often than I try. I used to write love poems but now they are all about me. I’m also a runner & I can run so fast before you can blink an eye. And I’m sorry if I left you behind. Know that I have a lot to learn and there is a war within I needed to fight. I just got so inspired. My buttons were pushed & I just got so **** high.

Hi, I’m also called A. And I’m addicted to self-improvement, the search, & the high. I’d go to high stakes just to feel alive. And I refuse to drink drugs, cause I wanna do it on my own. Here is a little on my soul, it looks like the devil & sometimes I just wanna be so ******* bad. And trust me I don’t need to be saved. And I don’t **** around. I’m in love with the hunt itself. And it's true I have a lot to learn. And the lone wolf **** is hard to die. And God knows I need to learn to lean. But if you are still around, know that you really light my fire. So, if you are still with me. This means you can keep up. And man, I **** with that. I dreamed of a world who knew the real me other than the ones I count on my hand.  

So hi, I’m Danya & there is more to me than what meets the eye. And trust me I only get better with time. Don’t get it twisted, I’m a sweetie at heart. My momma taught me right. Yet, my daddy made me tough. So, I’m always at my prime. And I’m laying this all out on the line cause I said **** It, I’m gonna fly high-class with my art in one hand and my heart in the other. Cause I do it for love not validation. And you’ll be seeing me in the city flashing lights.

How are you?
How you been?
But tell me
Please, why do you have to fill the space?
With your voice
Are you scared?
So, tell me now
Do you really care?
All these feelings boiling up to the surface
So, all I say is: I've been better.
Cause that's all I can say.
I'm trying to be authentic to myself
Sorry I'm not sorry it makes you feel uncomfortable
Hopefully, it's too much for you
So conversations end here
Or you say blah blah “everything will be alright.”
It's not that simple.
But now I know
If I don't want to speak
I'll simply say: I've been better.

And if you are smart enough
It ends there.

Secluded
Lost in a Trance
I never want to Wake Up
Unlatch or Wear Me Out
Fascination all around
Immersed
Unwrap me or Throw Me Away
I'm Dying to Bring to Light
What's on the tip of my tongue
Simulation Under wraps
Hush, Hush
Broadcast of the Night
Bare all Night
Confined in a Castle in the Air
Call it a Daydream or a Pie in the Sky
Just Store me
Release me on a Lonely Night
This is my Sacred Word
My Promissory Note

You forget as easily as forgetting an umbrella on a train
You were double-dealing
You were forced to discover
Nothing fades when the door is forced closed
You see the parts that would bore you
Because they would bore me too
So, you visualize & visualize sometimes  
Sagas that run off the page
The only way you can cross the line
Because you are human
And you desire what you cannot have
You realize what you have money cannot buy
But still, you wonder & wonder  
Because you are only human
Still, you have everyone convinced
You have told lies on top of lies that now  
Somehow seem true
Everyone is so convinced
But what if the joke is on you?
So, you keep your hands tied as long as you can
Hoping all of this will be worth the time
But God holds your truth tight
The only one who knows
What is authentic & pure.

Mother ocean,
Fin me against ruins,
Held close clam and bow.

One moment she was there and the next she was gone,
I remember the harmful and the favorable,
Even though she caused wounds, she still did not deserve to be demised,
Dreams in her eyes killed by the men who stole her force,
Still, she is the one to be charged.
Loved ones sit at her funeral remembering the delicacy she once was,
Her last days were far from first rate,
But she could ray,
I stepped in her rope, the last she was traced,
One moment she was here and the next she was gone.