Monday, February 22, 2010
My Name
ugly
Spoken with a twisted face and squinted eyes
Tasting foreign and frightening on your Anglo-Saxon tongue
you stumble
Over it and wonder where such a strange name came from
It's a scary name, you think, as sweat
Beads on your forehead like oil droplets in a glass of
water
Ethiopia?
Ethiopia.
Some little place in Africa you never cared to learn of.
My name is Ethiopia
I am my name
A foreign, scary place
I am my name
I am Ethiopia
Unspoken Words
Dribble from your lips like honey
They're so hard to hear because they've never been
Said
Like an unplayed symphony
The silent notes blend together in my mind
Losing each other in this grand and terrifying
Chaos
You never play my symphony
No, you never sing my song
It just lingers in the air waiting to be
Heard
Sweet words
Dribble from your bitter mouth
The aftertaste is undesirable but remains
Unspoken
Sexually Transmitted Desperation
Just me and you
My lips and nails are painted
And you seem so frustrated
Relax, tell me your name
Baby, don't be so ashamed
It's just a way to keep us entertained
Uneasy silence, hollow motions
Sweeping through us
Like shallow oceans
A sudden stop; yes, that's the end
I ain't your lover
And I ain't your friend
But I'm lonely
I'm the only
One I can trust, so stay
If you must...
If I show you cleavage and a fake smile
Will it be enough to make you stay for a while?
If I listen to your stories and sing you a song
Can we stay like this all night long?
Oh, I'm just a desperate girl
And this is cheap entertainment
Go back to your wife, go back to your life
Don't give me a thought, don't give this a thought
Just cheap entertainment, just a cheap thrill
I never gave a damn and I never will...
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Best Friends
But it's okay because I stick around
You only need me when you wanna be a bitch
When you need someone whose life is more pathetic than yours
When you need to stand next to someone who makes you feel better about yourself
I'm tired of your ugly heart and your ugly words
I'm tired of how toxic you are, so fuck off
Until I'm lonely and I need reassurance that someone cares about me
And I come crawling back to this hazardous "friendship"
Just so you can tear me down.
Great Expectations
Butterflies and love
I guess I've always been
A little (dis)obedient
Raw emotion stains
My pages and (de)flowers them
But good girls write about other things
I guess that's why the best poets are men
Black Girl's Lament
Your Heart, Hourglass
You see the world through your pretty pink glasses
I wish I could try them on
So that maybe the world wouldn't seem so dark
Stay here beside me
Be my sunlight
All the goodness of the world lies within your heart
Hourglass
I feel you in my hands like
Sand in an hourglass
Our time is up
The American Dream
We are the people who own this land
With our pale white skin
And our pink fleshy hands
We are the people who brought the world
Across the ocean on the back of a Great
Plague us with guilt of the sins we have committed
We will pay no mind, we will pay no mind
The historical facts that our textbooks have omitted
All is pure and white and kind
Speak our language
Ignore the cries of your ancient people
Who brought us across the ocean on their
Back to the issue at hand
You talk with your gibberish in words no one can under--
Stand here, here in our home and forget every story
That your grandmother told
Join us in our purity
Join us in our unity
And this can be your land, too