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Dec 2020 · 199
A love letter 💌
Yolanda Dec 2020
Your glory
Keeps me tethered and tethered and tethered to you ..

My love for you like the sun
Like the stars as they shine
As the moon is so bright
A fire blazing deep within my soul it cannot be extinguished
Oceans deep within my soul; your waves keep me afloat.. the oxygen I need to breathe

Like butterflies up in the air in the sky so blue ...
I am floating ...

Outer space like a blanket covering I feel your protection...

My love for you like the endless darkness that surrounds us & you the star, twinkles ever so brightly in the vastness of it all...

Splendid.

Like a city on a hill ever so bright ...
I am but a moth drawn to your brilliant flame & you my love are the light, the sun & the moon your glory.. keeping me tethered to you.
Would you believe me if I told you, love makes the world go round?
Jun 2020 · 169
I am afraid of the cold.
Yolanda Jun 2020
I’m afraid of the cold because it reminds me of how lonely I am
No one to warm me up I cling to an empty bed
My pillow, my cuddle buddy, soaking all my tears up

I just wanted a warm body but I won’t give a piece of my soul for it
Or hell I might as well be ******

What would I do for love?

I’d rather stay in my loneliness than have someone use me or worst break my heart

So I cling to my pillow, my heart in tact.
I let the emptiness fill me up like a ***** sadness I cannot wash away

I am afraid of the cold, because it reminds me of how lonely I am.
However because of this, I am more hopeful than ever
Because I know, no matter how cold it gets, the rain has to stop at some point to make way for the rainbow
Just as the sun will always find a way to penetrate the dark clouds & clear a black sky

So I know the cold I feel is not forever, my sun will come shining through and warm me up soon.
Mar 2020 · 149
Somewhere in your mind
Yolanda Mar 2020
I just want to know if you’re thinking of me as much as I am thinking of you.
Mar 2020 · 1.5k
A simple love story.
Yolanda Mar 2020
Kiss me under a night sky full of stars & tell me you want me
Let the moon shine as bright as the smile you put on my face
Hold my hand & tell me you’ll stay forever

Tell me that your favorite place is with me
That home is wherever I am & wherever you are

Dance with me in that silly way that makes me laugh & sing songs with me...
& even though we’re out of tune
It doesn’t matter because body & soul, you’re in tune with me

Let your energy radiate like a bright sun across a blue sky with me

& when the storm comes never leave me
Be my shelter & I yours

Laugh with me & cry with me...

& when it’s all over I’ll hold this forget-me-not flower close to my heart.. eyes closed praying that we’ll meet again.
Mar 2020 · 89
Tidal Waves 🌊
Yolanda Mar 2020
We’re riding the wave in our finest boat.
Not sure of our destination but we’re not worried because we’re together

Up & down we go riding the Ocean waves
Tide after tide, pushing against the current

Back & forth we are drifting...
until it’s not only the sea that’s making us sick

My love for you overwhelming
I am willing to die for you
But you don’t feel the same

So now... instead of going against the current we’re going against each other
...drowning out each other with our voices as loud as the thunder in the sky

You throw your words like spears they pierce my heart & I feel the pain of you pulling away from me

The current is drifting us further apart

I thought my love was enough to save you
To save us
But how can you save something that doesn’t wanna be saved?
Someone who doesn’t wanna be saved...

This anchor isn’t strong enough to hold the boat tipping against the current
The water raises & I figure this is the final straw ...

I would throw you a lifeline but you would let me drown
So in despair I choose myself

You ruined me but you saved me.
#Tides&waves 🌊 #relationships #love #hate #romance
Yolanda Sep 2019
Eradicate the words you once spoke to me
They mean nothing
Alleviate my pain & let me levitate

I write these words to forget my pain
Erase my memory & ease my agony

No longer do I want to think of you
Or how you made me feel
Or how you made me fall in love with your brokenness

Your smile, warm felt like home
But now that home is just a house with skeletons
How i wish I could burn down that house
Expunge it from existence alongside all the love I have for you

“Erase my memory & ease my pain...”

These words a prophecy yet to be fulfilled

Oh how I live to see that day ...
When your existence is finally obliterated
From my memory
Yolanda Aug 2019
I pictured me and you & smiled
Your skin brushing up against mine
Felt like a thousand fireworks on a 4th of July night
Waking up next to you, the epitome of heaven...
I could do this forever
I thought

If only I didn’t wake up and you were different ...

I was different ...

Suddenly the thought of forever scares me more than the silence of being alone
Your touch hurts... like a fire set on my skin..
Burning to the depths of my soul
Your words cut me deeper than a double edged sword
Your love has become a thorn in my flesh

If only this was just a dream...

I could do this forever I thought...

Forever seems a really long time.. but that wouldn’t matter as my body is being lowered 6ft underground

I guess I can say in death I finally escaped from you.
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Jul 2019 · 521
Where do you come from?
Yolanda Jul 2019
Where do you come from?

Do I come from the land of my forefathers
Or am I the daughter of the soil

Nourished by the land of which I’m taught to toil

Or maybe I am a daughter of the moon connected in spirit

Where do you come from they ask?..

I am the daughter of a self employed man

I dare say from my mother’s womb

Where do you come from they ask...

A little planet called earth

I am a human..

A girl that grew into a woman

I am the daughter of the soil

Dipped in melanin,

I come from a land that flows with milk & honey

Africa my beloved
My heart
My home
This is who I am.
Yolanda Jul 2019
The only thing I’ve ever known to love was you
The only person who ever came close to loving me was you

& now I stare up at the big blank canvas of the night
With stars so vast they speak to us in their loneliness ...
Twinkle twinkle little star.. how sad yet so beautiful
I think I just might howl at the moon let my feelings out..
Looking all around me not a soul in sight
Inside my heart lays hallow
But I won’t wallow

It’s all just a temporary feeling,
fleeting anyway.
May 2019 · 601
I don’t know you.
Yolanda May 2019
You left like I wasn’t reason to stay
Not being heartless I’m just using my heart less

All I wanted was your time but that was a crime

Wrapped up in misery you became a mystery
Two peas in a pod estranged from one another
Almost inevitable
All you had to do was stay.
Mar 2019 · 485
Lost...
Yolanda Mar 2019
I feel so lost...
I need to find myself
By myself, spinning
Spiraling out of control..

What is that sound I hear?
A voice...
A whisper in the dark..
It says my name, I hear it
Like a rushing wind I feel it

But.. but I don’t see anything
It laughs mockingly
Toying with my emotions slowly...

Lost.

I need to find myself...
Aug 2018 · 250
See you, see me, see us.
Yolanda Aug 2018
See you,
See me,
See us.

See nothing...
Feel nothing...

Only what was,
What we hoped we could be,
& what we never were

Oh how I wish we could go back to what we were
What we had
What we shared...

See you
See me
See us...
Do we really mean nothing at all?
Yolanda Aug 2018
I’m surrounded by people...
Yet I have never felt so alone
I’m in a house but it’s not my home
I cry out loud but no one hears anything

“Do you see me?”

I’m smiling.. I’m happy
But I’m dying inside
I want you to notice me, but you don’t see at all, do you?

I ask once again...

“Do you see me?..”

I’m suffocating...
I can’t breathe.
I’m praying and praying...
Praying for my savior

Won’t you throw me a life line?
Won’t you see me?
Won’t you come and save me?

How do you not see me?..

The pain of breathing another lie
Living another day..
It’s all too much

I ask one last time...

“Do you see me?”
Treat each other with kindness for you do not know what monsters & battles their facing.
Aug 2018 · 246
To my secret love...
Yolanda Aug 2018
When you need me I hope you think of me.
When you don’t see me, I hope you miss me.
I hope you think of me when you’re all alone.
& I hope you remember me when you’re not.
I hope you remember mostly the good
& I hope you don’t forget the lessons we learnt from the bad.
& out of everything... I hope you remember that I loved you through it all.

— The End —