alexa-13
14/F/A place we call Universe
When I was born I couldn't breathe on my own. But I was like, "Not today," and pulled out my oxygen tubes / And my name means Defender of Men / And when my mom asked me how my first day of kindergarten was, I said “It was a piece of cake” / :)
"Never explain.
Your friends don't need it,
and your enemies won't believe you anyway"
But still, I explain.
To my friends
because they deserve
to know.
And
to my enemies
so that just in case
the believe me,
they don't go through life
believing
that when they called me
stupid
I agreed.
May 14, 2019
May 14, 2019 at 8:39 PM UTC
have you ever
had cancer?
in your brain?
did it hurt?
did you cry?
i would actually
like to know.
May 8, 2019
May 8, 2019 at 8:11 PM UTC
This morning
i came up
with the most beautiful
poem.
And then
I forgot it.
May 7, 2019
May 7, 2019 at 7:31 PM UTC
#
Someone asked me how it feels
to be black.
No joke.
It happened.
Yesterday.
Yesterday
my best friend asked me
if he could have
an "N-word pass."
No joke.
Yesterday
someone came up
and put their hand
in my hair
and started messing with it.
No joke.
They were like
"How do you get your hair
so curly?"
And in my head I was like
'Um... Youuu.. Ugh!?!How do you get your hair
so straight? How do you get your skin
so white?"
How do you not know
that our worlds might be very different
or closer to the same
than you might ever
want to believe?
May 4, 2019
May 4, 2019 at 12:27 AM UTC
Hello Poetry is built
like a social media site
but those of us that make
the front page
have like 10 followers.
Personally,
I have 2
(shout out to Perry
and Fredrick Njroge)
but it's not a big deal.
Because that's not what I'm here for.
"We write to be seen,
But we slam to be heard."
Apr 22, 2019
Apr 22, 2019 at 7:51 PM UTC
Someone
out there
doesn't have a mom.
You say "Everyone has a mom".
Well, get this.
Someone's mother
was born in the 70's,
with bipolar disorder.
Quite the disaster.
This was before
people knew how to address
things like that,
so instead it was
hidden away.
Someone's mother
turned to drugs
to make herself feel okay
but it didn't really turn out that way.
By the time she was 22
she had two daughters,
but no source of stability.
Someone's mother
overdosed one (two? three?)too many times
and got arrested for
possession of illegal drugs.
Someone's mother
had to sing
"You Are My Sunshine"
with her hand up to glass,
instead of with her hand
in her daughter's.
Someone
forgot to give their mother
one last hug
goodbye.
Someone's mother's
last OD
resulted in laying
on a couch for
three days.
Alone.
Someone's mother
went into
a coma.
Someone
was told
to say goodbye
to her mother,
and said
"She can't hear me.
Why should I say goodbye
if she can't hear me?"
Someone
was without a mother
at 11 years old.
Someone
had a sister that stole
*** from her mother.
Someone
grew up
not really knowing
what was going on.
Someone
out there
doesn't have a mom.
Apr 19, 2019
Apr 19, 2019 at 8:21 PM UTC