Poetry Monday: Love Lost

with a smirk and a giggle
you trap me in your gaze
i’d do anything for you
you set my soul ablaze
if only i could tell you
i’ve tried so many days

the celestial being
that you are in my eyes
you’ve never noticed before
this causes many sighs
i cannot make you notice
after all of my tries

though you are with someone else
i wish you could be mine
i’ll never ask this of you
to leave your man behind
i will never forget you
and you’ll never be mine

Black Chaos

This selection is from my forthcoming collection of poetry, Black Chaos. Click Here to Pre-Order. Visit the Black Chaos Page to learn more about the collection and see select reviews for the book as well as other purchase links to several platforms including Nook and iBooks. There will be a new poem from the collection every Saturday and Sunday in April in celebration of the book’s release and National Poetry Month. Tell me what you think in the comments below.

Black Chaos

The black chaos
Drips on the page
Nightmares live in
Reality – 
I release the
Fears through my pen
They never leave
But they have lost
Their hold on me – 
A past mended
With ink and words – 
With my poems
I capture it
My depression – 
A reminder
Of what I was
When black chaos
Consumed my soul

Through Hate They Took Power

This selection is from my forthcoming collection of poetry, Black Chaos. Click Here to Pre-Order. Visit the Black Chaos Page to learn more about the collection and see select reviews for the book as well as other purchase links to several platforms including Nook and iBooks. There will be a new poem from the collection every Saturday and Sunday in April in celebration of the book’s release and National Poetry Month. Tell me what you think in the comments below.

Through Hate They Took Power

Every morning I wake
To some atrocity
The news would have us fear
Viruses – Violence – 
Tyranny – Fascism – 

Many want to believe
Things are getting better
Oppression awaits us – 
Every single person

Your white privilege makes
You the last target not – 
Free from the oppression
When you realize what the
Whole world is becoming
It’ll be too late to stop

There is a coup against
Us by the government
Will you submit or fight – 
Will you allow them to
Control and dominate