Let me be Colorful

Thursday, January 29, 2009

horoscope

My horoscope said that today would be a good day to write
it also said that I'd be coming into great financial fortune
so I'm pretty sure I should just quit my job and become a writer
full-time
and wait for these riches to bathe me with hope

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Revolution of Her

She rode this revolution like a whore
spreading her thighs wide to swallow the world whole
fist raised like she was protesting monogamy
while staring mary in the eyes
this was her revolution
a spiral of lust, sweat, beating hearts, pounding clit
she couldn't get close enough to coming
she went before he could hold her
as he told her "baby, you are amazing"
and she took that to mean her sex was worth having
but he was speaking straight from the heart
his manhood took her laid her out and shook her
but his heart wanted more
good conversation
he was content with masterbation
if only she didnt close the door behind her
he would have told her
"baby you are amazing and I mean it all encompassing,
your heart beats in berry sunshine rhythms of my mother,
warm, nurturing and I want to
smother you with tomorrow until the sun ceases to exist."
but she swallowed lies like semen
closing her eyes tight and believed in
the fate that she only existed in her dreams
she no longer dreamed in color it was always gray
and to this day she has trouble remembering
what a sunrise looks like because she has been face down for so long
gripping sheets in tattered fingers,
splitting her insides until she was hollow
like the moon before it disappears when the sun comes
and she thought it was part of the women's movement
to remove her heart from her chest
and simply rely on her breasts to take her places
she spread herself too thin
until every greeting would begin with an offer
she wore her miniskirts proudly
thong brandished like a metal of honor
because really that's the life she was offered
when she blossomed too soon
told stories of this revolution of her womb
so she began fighting for equality the only way she knew
riding men like tanks into warfare
gripping cocks like steel
unloading cum into her womb
as if she were trying to kill
her future freedom fighters with each shot
she wanted to fuck her way free
from the ties that bind her to the kitchen
the lies that she was fed and believed in
until she found the strength between her thighs
and realized too late that with each mate that mounted her
she would reach a fate mounting equivalents
of walking off a moutain to see if she could fly
her wings had been clipped
like broken pinky promises between soulmates
she never believed in a life mated
only checkmates and her stategy has always been flawed
A revolutionary she marked herself
A whore is how she was seen
waging war on a homeland
that would never quite be secure







***Trying for years to finish this... so the ending is a bit abrupt**

new hope

Born from the ashes of our mother
we rise from the womb with wings ready for war
battling birth head on
please let us stay in the quiet
of our mother for moments more
unscathed by the cries billowing through breezes
echoing through barriers
carried from generations before us
just wait
allow us to soak in heartbeats murmuring messages of hope
my heart has filled with hope

a hope that is audible

pounding this promise of change

reliving centuries creased in pages

put on shelves to be forgotten

today we remember

a history that has molded our nation

strong and bold like billowing flags and today

I am proud to own these stars and stripes

Monday, January 19, 2009

Music in my Blood

For a minute I forgot where I came from
not the streets, or the hood, or a broken home
I came from love
from a love of two people expressing it endlessly
from a love of music that wafted through our home l
ike the smell of warm summer mornings
of my childhood hot pavement, cut grass, and lilac
It has always been more than home to me
it has been my haven and now no longer wrapped in that security
I long for the feeling of home again
In your arms you cradled me like my ears to the beat
encompassing the rhythms that made me tap my feet
to the echoes of yesterday through a speaker
We were raised on the words of James Taylor
and the melodies of Carol King,
The Wall of Pink Floyd
you gave us a ladder to climb over it
and see the horizon on the dark side of the moon.
Our home was never silent with mommy singing in the kitchen
off key but proudly kissing notes into the springs quiet breeze
she would sing stories written by others
my mother teaching us through song
that the secret of life is enjoying the passage of time
and it passed so quickly
fast forwarded through the heart ache
humming this stairway to heaven
where we were allowed to catch a glimpse
while riding the storm through the night
loud crashes and bright lights
it was our religion, no sunday mornings in church pues
we simply exchanged our faith in eachother
and my father with this same love of heartbeats
healing small hands with open hugs
he loved just as melodically
giving us hope in ourselves listening to Creedance
with a candle in the window because movement isn't negotiable
and change is gonna come whether we are ready or not
so we only get one more night
and somehow my parents figured out how to love just right
fully, unconditionally, without reservation
one nation under a grove and trust me our bodies move with rhythm
like heartbeats on warm summer mornings
beckoning for the birth of this melody
we made memories to soundtracks
playing out this past because baby what you want
is more than just respect and you will survive either way
and how sweet it is to be loved with every single breath you take
we learned to listen carefully to the secret message
played backwards in time on vinyl telling us to
stop, in the name of love
even if you still haven't found what you're looking for
you've gotta keep on movin on
cuz sittin in the morning sun watchin those ships roll in
isn't gonna take you higher
so even if you were born to walk alone
find the love of yourself
pledge it to everyone you meet on the street
because good days are around the bend
and we always see the sunshine through the rain