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Dominique Yates Jan 2021
You
Everyday with you
I learn something new

They don’t tell you about the hard days
When your down to your last piece of patience

Its not your fault
Nor mine;
This is something new

I am thankful for you and all that you do
But they really don’t tell you about the hard days

When you can't fall asleep
When you refuse to eat

Why wont you let me brush your hair
Can you put on your underwear?
I’ve been chasing you around days

Help me, let me catch up

You’re growing taller and getting smarter

Your training my brain
Testing my restraint

I feel that I am failing you,
I feel you could do better without me, your mommy
But everyday with you,
I learn something new

Because they do tell you about the good days
But never go in depth

From the “mommy I love you" down to the kisses and hugs
You make the bad days seem not so tough
when your smile pokes through the 3 year old " I'm grown" attitude

So we can stay up tonight
maybe share a midnight treat

We can brush your hair in the morning
or tie it up

Who needs underwear
Mommy doesn’t care

Everyday with you
I learn something new

Good days or bad days
I will always love you
No matter what they tell me
Everyday is a new day for me and you

I'd rather learn something new then have never met you
Dominique Yates Jan 2018
So uhm.. I had a baby
I may be naïve
Newly graduated
Still asking my mom to make my doctor appointments
So I had.. a baby
In fact I was still a baby
I just got chewed up and spit out
Now I’m spitting out kids
Who would’ve guessed
So uhm yeah.. I had a baby
I met love in high school
They called him danger and he had blue eyes
Well danger and I uhm..
We kinda had a baby
It felt like the world was telling me this is it,
Welcome to your life
Well guess what world
I HAD A BABY
I’m now invincible and a mom
I’m an invincible mom
I carried a human for nine months
Now I’m making appointments
Setting up schedules
BREASTFEEDING AND WORKING FULL WEEKS
Nothing is stopping me
Now let me repeat
SO I HAD A BABY
A beautiful baby
A wonderful smart baby
I’m teaching him that
The littlest oops turns into
The biggest blessing In disguise
So I’ll tell you one more time
I HAD A BABY
And my life has never been better
This is more of a slam poetry but written
Dominique Yates Oct 2014
The rain shattered on the rooftops; clashing with my skin;
running into the closest building which felt the farthest away slipping on mud I fell into the storm
of you
Being my home, the closest I've come to something real
Searching for the eye of the storm
Lost in pain, I can't find my way
Stumbling upon something new everyday
I just wish the rain would end and shine one day
The pain feels like acid rain burning my skin on a sunny day
But your smile is a hurricane taking out everything
I want the rain to end but I would never see you again
Into the storm, I fall again but you catching me in your arms
The storm has stopped and I realized that the rainy days are the ones that let me love you more even though the sunny days are the prettiest of all.
I think this is about my ex but it kinda isn't..
Dominique Yates Sep 2014
They say love hits you hard but they didnt explain the bruises you'll wake up to in the morning; The excuses you'll have to come up with; The days he'll spend saying sorry till you forgive him;  The nights you stay up fearing you'll mess up again; Your friends yelling at you to leave him; When he's yelling at you to ditch your friends; Waiting for the day love will hit you hard enough that you won't wake up in the morning to see any of them ever *again
Dominique Yates Sep 2014
My lipstick scetched in your lips
Your love etched on my heart
I think I love you more but physical attraction is what I'm liking for

I covered your face in lipstick stain
As you say I love you over again

List covered dust
Sprinkled over us
All I can do is think of you

Running your hands up my back
Chills shoot through, an impulse erupts saying I love you was just too much

Physical attraction was what I wanted so in the end

"We're just friends"
Dominique Yates Aug 2014
Blueberry kisses
I get to like the spoon as my mother makes pancakes on this early noon
9 years ago, us on our own
The whir of her voice woke me every morning but now all alone here on a cliff; I stand while she gives her kisses away
16 years but 2 on cloud 9 a needle in my hand, it was only a matter of time;
I take a leap into the fumes I end up burnt but that's nothing new;
I miss my blueberry kisses but now they're all gone.
Do you see why I'm hateful, do you see it mom ?
What happened to blueberry kisses,

for breakfast every morn' ?
  Aug 2014 Dominique Yates
A
stargazing
hot chocolate
music
christmas lights
autumn leaves
cuddling (in theory)
performing
long hugs
flowers
children in grocery stores begging for pop tarts
late night talks
the thought of you
the thought of us
seeing you from afar as I walk into school
Just you
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