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 Dec 2015 cf
Red Fox
My Vows
 Dec 2015 cf
Red Fox
I may fall short on everything that's seems worth it.
But know,
When we got together.
I never said it would be easy,
But I'll always make every chance, worth it.
For I fall short of a God,
nowhere near perfect.
But through constant effort,
I'll make you happy.
Show you a headache of a husband that's worth it.
What I would say
 Dec 2015 cf
Emma
I tell you it’s dark inside 

You say turn on a light

I say it hurts my eyes

I’ve gotten use to the dark 

I can feel my way to my heart 

And lay down on its surface

I can tiptoe my way

Around hopelessness 

Slip on a few things 

But not fall

But you’re still new to it 

You still trip on my

Newly discovered fears

Still drown in my overwhelming 

Sea of sadness 

You've gotten bruises

From slipping on my silence 

You have fallen on my weariness

And I’m sorry 
I never meant for it 

To swallow you too 

Loving you makes a difference 

But you can't fix a ****
With nothing but a twig 

You can take a horse to a spring 

But you can't make it drink 

You can love me all you want 

But I have to learn 

To love myself 

Enough to turn on the light 

I will try to ease my eyes
to the light 
But fire eventually burns out
Even candles know that

I’m sorry I’m not okay 

I wish I was

If only it were 

To be well enough 

To look into your eyes 

And not feel like I’m drowning

To be able to feel 

The trace of your hands on mine

And not wish you didn’t have to

Feel the scars 

I’m sorry I’m not okay 

I really wish I was 

If only to be able to tell you
How much I love you 

Enough to not die for you

Enough to live with you
I choose you.
 Dec 2015 cf
Cowin Alan
Untitled
 Dec 2015 cf
Cowin Alan
I want you back.
Selfishly.
I want to meet you.
Needlessly.
I want to throw it all away.

But I hold on.

I hold on, not because I want to.

But because I have to.
 Dec 2015 cf
Molly Daniels
Untitled
 Dec 2015 cf
Molly Daniels
take a shot
every time wine isn't strong enough
to drown out the memories of us
i finish an entire
bottle of *****
thinking about the way the door
slammed
shut after you left
and i still haven't forgotten
the lock clicking behind you
 Dec 2015 cf
Red Fox
Us
 Dec 2015 cf
Red Fox
Us
No one knows what it's like
To live as a ****
we have Hobbies,
Relationships
And we give Our kids hugs.

No one knows what it's like
To be Black all the time
For everyone to lock doors around you,
In fear of imminent crime.

No one know what's it like
To be Me
My problem are through the roof.
I take my anger out
Through poetry.

No one knows what it's like
To be Someone Else
I'm grateful to be here
Happy,
Alive,
And hopefully in good health.

If we all placed our problems on a table,
We'd take ours back.
That's a line I learned from a White gentleman,
Who looked at me for more than being Black.

Appreciate Everyone
A poem in appreciation of my mentor
 Dec 2015 cf
Red Fox
Flawless
 Dec 2015 cf
Red Fox
I'm just expressing myself,
showing my values through pen strokes.
Writing poems for women in thin clothes,
Never really wanting to see how this pen can go.
Just chasing relations
As long as the next chick's real hair flows.
Not shallow
Just not very empathetic
Kind of a contradiction,
Seeing how my heart hangs by thin tethers.
In today's world, that's either light skin
Or just pathetic.
I'll answer myself;
It's the latter.
Scared of commitment
Like I'm living with a weak bladder
Causing problems that don't exist.
Find myself alone and just reminisce.
I'm my own downfall,
I'm just proud
I know where my flaws exist,
For that alone makes me
Flawless
 Nov 2015 cf
Pudge
breakup letter
 Nov 2015 cf
Pudge
we both knew
that this was going to hurt
sooner or later
so stop crying
this love is a wound
that we kept on pretending,
kept lying to ourselves
was a battle scar
for a war
we've never even fought

I'll pack my bags
and stitch my wounds
so please, at least
have the decency
to tell me you didn't
really love me

at least, give me
a reason to sleep
after I've cried
rivers out of my eyes

lie for me
one last time
for old times sake
pretty please?
 Nov 2015 cf
Tina Marie
Show me
 Nov 2015 cf
Tina Marie
Don't tell me I'm beautiful.
Look deep into my soul, past my scars, and tell me I have a beautiful heart.

Don't tell me you want to make love to me.
Let me in the place your demons live and make me love you in spite of them.

Don't tell me you want to love me the rest of our lives.
Make me believe it's possible to build a life with you.

Don't tell me you love me.*
Show me in so many ways that there is no doubt in my mind and I just know it.
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