#qpoc
I feel like in all of our processing conversations
The ones we enter into with our expectations
Of coming out with definitive positions
You finish with the condition:
Yes. But don’t fall in love with me.
If I told you how many times folks have told me that lately
I told you my mantra after they said they wouldn’t date me
Maybe you would find the levity of folks breaking up with themselves for me
And saying “don’t fall in love with me.”
How long until I’ve gone in and through the all of the tumult
The stumble that humbles the pride that had been built from the rubble
And I begin the mumble of “don’t.”
When all I want is to break into a million universe pieces of dust in your hands,
but instead I’ll pretend. And before this all ends
I’ll be the one to take the hope
and break the spark
And exhale thinly through the dark
Please—don’t...
...fall in love with me
Dec 21, 2019
Dec 21, 2019 at 11:06 PM UTC
My heart is open and getting softer to
This unruly, textured, tender, layered existence
This isn’t new though
It’s always been a giant beating thing.
It beat for acceptance and praise and approval
As if those things were Love
As if those things sustained anything besides veneers
When my heart beat for anybody but myself
Kids, partners, parents, friends, strangers
It beat so loudly that it drowned out
The sounds of its own losses
This time and space forced me to be so
Unraveled
So broken open
That the only beating my heart did at first felt traitorous
Slowly, slowly when I had no reason to protect myself
No reason to deny my small self anything
Because there was nothing left to grasp for...
My heart turned to itself
Jul 11, 2019
Jul 11, 2019 at 8:40 PM UTC
The things we built were on a rickety scaffold
stretched as high and fast as our love
when we got to the top I wanted to cling to you
and look in your eyes
and tell you that I was scared.
I’m scared.
And your eyes are gone.
The scaffold has tumbled
and the pieces are shiny
and sharp
and broken
Jun 30, 2019
Jun 30, 2019 at 10:29 AM UTC
My existence isn’t something
you test out your empathy on
My humanity is not something
that asks for your sympathy
My life and loves and lived experiences
are liberated from your thin,
watery approval
Your opinion holds no bearing in my body.
Jun 28, 2019
Jun 28, 2019 at 7:54 PM UTC
I don’t want them.
I’m scared to sleep again because that’s where the dreams live
My dreams don’t know that hope feels like death
That thoughts of you need to be closely filtered,
monitored, redirected and pushed away
Lest I start crying and not stop until
my body has lost all of its water in tears
My dreams are where I remember
you played on my body like a jungle gym
Where every kiss seared my soul
The big dream has yet to be told
that no one is coming to the party
and it is still building the venue
The dreams are where
memory, fantasy and hopes grow
in fertile soil without knowing
there is no sun to feed them
and the water is running dry
Time is returning to me
And you’re gone
Jun 6, 2019
Jun 6, 2019 at 10:29 AM UTC
Its strange that people
are capable
of storing memories
about you
that you have since forgotten.
I have this one friend who tells me things about myself that I never knew.
Be it a story I told or a joke I pulled.
I was quite the jester.
It weirds me out that there are people who hold memories of me
be it fond be it
friendly.
I made an impact,
somewhere.
At some point in time.
I think he remembers so much about me because we were best friends once.
I feel like I have betrayed a lot of people.
May 24, 2019
May 24, 2019 at 11:12 PM UTC
Black and white movies
play behind us
As I make you question
The whole **** world.
Mind ****
Is what you call my theories,
My stories,
My questions,
My answers.
“Is that bad?”
I ask you. You
tell me I never could tell
when you were interested
or were telling me it was bad.
I suppose you’re right.
Babe,
you ask later,
as I read,
and you watch the movie,
what is the quadratic formula?
I don’t look up
but I can feel
that **** near perfect smile.
You always do this,
ask me random questions
that aren’t useful anymore
at not least to us.
So I recite it.
And you laugh.
And I laugh.
And we continue being together
Doing different.
You ask me several more
Over the course of the movies and books.
What is flash fiction?
What is life?
What is **** made from?
Do you know that Mark Twain novel—?
Yes, I love your questions.
I love you.
Babe,
you say,
What is love?
I don’t respond.
I want to say another
dictionary definition
but it doesn’t come out.
“Mind **** I say.
Jun 24, 2017
Jun 24, 2017 at 12:57 AM UTC
I’m
a black,
queer,
atheist,
woman ***
???? (gender).
Life is going to be so hard.
Jun 24, 2017
Jun 24, 2017 at 12:53 AM UTC
I wish I was her world
Her everything.
I wish I was that coffee cup
That get the pleasure of touching her lips
every morning
I wish
She was mine.
Like the movies in my cabinet,
Except I would watch her
even when I’m not sad.
Another
movie plays.
The boy
kisses the girl,
I imagine myself as the boy,
I imagine her as the girl.
I imagine her
As mine.
Is it possible for her to love me?
Jun 24, 2017
Jun 24, 2017 at 12:41 AM UTC
I have tried many ways to think of her but
Astronomy was the only way I could write on.
I've tried to comfort her out of despair, but
I couldn't find the words to take her out of pain.
When I heard he made her cry,
I wanted to take the pain out of her,
put them into his face and my fists as
I hit him into the oblivion space we know space to be, and
him see the stars closer than any telescope had seen.
I wouldn't mind being in pain for a little while so
the sun could dry her tears,
she was trying so hard to hide.
Would it be so terrible for me to remind her
how the stars bowed in her presence?
Would It be so terrible for me to show her
nobody sees the stars
and the beauty of night anymore
because they are afraid of her
and the beauty she brings?
I too scared to ask if she knows
how you left her after class
to scream at the universe for
making her believe
she was anything less,
than the closest thing to perfection
the universe has to offer. Does she
know how you've collected books of
nebulas in your heads that show when
she decides to laugh? Does she know
you how hard this is for you, to sit here
and smile and joke like your heart
doesn't break with hers as you see her
in a pain deeper than imaginable and you
know it. It spans across all universes and expands
further than your love of poetry and your longing to
hug her and tell her it's going to be okay, but
you know that's not true,
and you can never make that true.
So you sit here,
and write a love poem never to be read,
because that means something would die inside you
or her
if you shared how much of the universe you could give to her
how much of the universe
and the stars
and the planets
and the comets
and meteors
you could shower her with
if she knew how beautiful she was....
Jun 24, 2017
Jun 24, 2017 at 12:37 AM UTC
I am reaching out for you. I reach to the deep corners of my heart where the darkness begins by its shadows cover; where there was a small hole from the first woman I loved.
I'm reaching to pull the arrow that grown baby in the diaper shot me in the *** with,
I'm reaching for where he's missed and shot and left scars is big as that gaping hole in my heart that Never seemed to heal correctly.
I'm reaching. I'm reaching for the day I saw you in that wheelchair my first day of marching band and someone said we'd be a cute couple of shorties.
I'm reaching for the day I switched seats and you were directly across my black eyes and I could feel my pupils dilate at least 45 percent.
Oh god this is amazing.
I'm reaching into the corners of my mind where I keep my biggest secrets and I'm reaching for you.
Jun 24, 2017
Jun 24, 2017 at 12:33 AM UTC