They say Im to white to be black
because I speak with eloquence, intelligence and class.
Yet when did me speaking right equate me to speaking white?
Im to white to be black
because Im "to nice," while the other black girls
speak reckless and are selfish.
Im to white to be black
because I don't typically listen to rap.
I'm to white to be black
because my skin is a shade or two lighter than you.
They say Im to black to be white
because I drink grape kool-aid
and statistically speaking Im bound to be under paid.
Im to black to be white
because i like "black girl" names.
I guess they failed to inform me when names were
associated with the color of my skin.
Im to black to be white
because of my thick thighs and chocolate curls.
Im to black to be white
because im a shade or two darker than you.
May 13, 2018
May 13, 2018 at 10:25 PM UTC
They repressed me from street drugs but never from
the ones with chocolate skin and a heartbeat
They told me how dope dilutes one's mind
Yet they failed to inform me that he would have the same effect
How he would bestow a heavy heart upon me
How depression will reign every time I see him with her
Momma, how come you never steered me from
the feeling of worthlessness and defeat?
Why didn't you warn me about the side effects
or tell me that he is a drug to?
Oct 29, 2017
Oct 29, 2017 at 5:16 PM UTC
Blow me kisses within the night
Nightfall will take me away
Collect my thoughts in a paper bag
You'll see the bag rip open
place your smooth hands upon my face
to tell me "worry no more; everything is going to be okay"...
I know you're a liar from that empty statement
Kiss me off to my sweet adventure called life
I hope not to run back to you
Abuse the word love repeatedly
I know you're full of ****
You can't help it
Keep telling yourself that you can't live without me
please don't choke off those words
I enjoyed the fairy tale of your comfort
Now you've opened my eyes
I salute myself
for never caring
By: Leory Santana Dawn
Oct 29, 2017
Oct 29, 2017 at 5:02 PM UTC
Feed off our fraudulence. Our ethereal entity. Help keep the corrupt at shore. Tell me how love will find her way! In times of our adverse adventures. When our bodies lie limp in the sand... As baleful barbarians take to attack. I will be there... just look. Hidden beyond your shadows. Yet I'm still there And when my troubled winds knock me down.. I'll seek comfort in you.
Jul 28, 2017
Jul 28, 2017 at 11:49 PM UTC
The creases of your lips sinking into my skin
Each kiss flowing down my spine tickling my soul out of it's shell
I pursue my thoughts and desires
A sense of faith that this will never end
I want a tale within a tale
That I'll limp in pain in my feet to just to see what will happen as God will throw me me in your arms reach
By: Leory Santana Dawn
Jun 21, 2017
Jun 21, 2017 at 4:50 PM UTC
Quit picking at your old wounds! Stop going for walks in aches and pains you already made it through. You call it healing... yet it sounds like a good way to take the haunted with you.
Loneliness is a no vacancy sign for an empty room on the backside of your chest. There will never be enough people to love that emptiness out of you. Love won't save you!
Only you will save you! Remember no matter how much you think you need a voice at the other end of the line...
It's a felony to call 911 just because you need someone to talk to.
You can't shrink into radio static and heavily breathe on the other end of your phone. Your aching doesn't end in an ambulance! Now breathe... yes you may have heard this once or twice. But BREATHE!
I know you got ribs like on the wrongside of a fist fight. That's from hyperventilating. Your lungs just survived a car crash from the inside of your body. Be gentle... please! Find the pocket of your heartbeat where you keep forgiveness. We will try again tomorrow!
I know you got a bone to pick with tomorrow... but too late it's coming. Listen in a few hours your withered world will turn herself right side up again and you'll forget all about tonight. The night she left you to drown in her song of blues!
Your will make sense again. You think you've seen every ugly corner that our erupting Earth offers. Yet there are an infinite number of things we don't know and... statistically speaking half of the unknown is beautiful!
Jun 21, 2017
Jun 21, 2017 at 4:45 PM UTC
When Light craved your soul to see in kissing colors
as the evening envisioned to die in the dawn of depth,
when Soul lustered for learning, as blood bespoke to her bones
for building the star of flesh, when Time needed the resentment
of its ubiquity to be understood. The moment texture lured touch to
tease with a thousand sensations, when the labor of love sought a language
to express the extremes of its lips, as romance raged through the ravishing of
hardened hearts, when sorrow’s seduction made heroes of loving men and women.
When Justice is seduced to her innocent words,
as bravery battled the basic questions of conquest,
war demands a metaphor in the terror of its destruction,
as Faith finds resolutions to her problems in seconds,
Death wallows for relief and Life’s supercilious meaning upon its skyline.
When God wanted imagination to invent immaculate existence…
Poetry began, born as an eternal being,
because, the only vow of a Poet, is Passion!
May 18, 2017
May 18, 2017 at 7:41 PM UTC
I fear the thought of failure
my name written in the dirt
spat upon
Standing in line
picked out
like a painting
framed,
ashamed of what..
of who I've become
The mistakes
the bad things
Horrible
Unkind
I look back down
at my name in the dirt
a gravelly scribble
I grab a stick,
Strikethrough.
May 8, 2017
May 8, 2017 at 6:19 PM UTC
I'm not what you need
only what you can use
Long conversations within the night
Touches with passionate kisses
Acceptive of your differences
Playing innocent
The easiest for you
I'm not what you what you want
Only what you're borrowing from the next
Pieces of lost happiness channeling your mind
Tight hugs that tell you a story of what shouldn't be lost
Long walks on the beach to make time go by quicker
I'm never going to be what you need
No sense in lying within a bed of lies to wake up
Convincing yourself that just maybe...ONE DAY....
ONE DAY
He can be the one to fill the empty space
I'm not what you're seeking or speaking of
Sorry
I'll play dumb for myself not you
By: Leory Santana Dawn
May 8, 2017
May 8, 2017 at 6:17 PM UTC
A lie was told
It's free for them
Others spend years paying
To breath cost a lot just as well as sleeping
A lie that was told
We die as they strive to live forever robbing from the innocent, the poor, and the dead
They ****
They take
They lie
They destroy
While we're in ******* for such crimes
A free country
If only my laughter was heard
Where is this free country?
Our rules were founded by criminals
That's even more hilarious
We beg
Give our lives
Make many more sacrifices
They smile
It's a joke to them
A sick joke
A free country for them
We dwell in it
By: Leory Santana Dawn
May 7, 2017
May 7, 2017 at 1:00 PM UTC