12/30 There is research being done about three planets having the ability to rain diamonds both pressure and heat creating a downfall of these gems   and yet those are the two very things that we as humans try to avoid pressure and heat— but don’t we know by now? Those are not solely ingredients for pain […]

11/30 Dear body, I am sorry for the moments I have distanced myself from you as if you were atomic bomb and not temple   For the way that I have shoved fingers of insecurities down your throat not realizing that even though I thought I was purging things unwanted, I was letting the magic out […]

10/30 Tomorrow I will go to work And a classroom will not just be a classroom Tomorrow we will be reminded that cemeteries  Are not the only existing graveyards  We will lay words of remembrance as flowers  To keep those no longer here alive Today, reminded us that children  are still seen as bullet practice […]

9/30 On Saturday night,  I laughed the hardest I have in a long time it was filled with people who know you better than you know yourself most days a frozen moment in snow globe fashion forever in the forefront of my memories on Sunday, I cried twice in the span of two hours let the […]

8/30 A few nights ago, I felt intrusive as a I watched a couple come home   My eyes unable to move from the scene as they settled in, quietly and exhausted as they made their bed and laid their heads to rest   I saw the man lean over to his lady And whisper something […]

7/30 I’ve been told that I am most beautiful while on stage That the person seen in coffee shops, at church and at work Is not the woman that is present on stage   And she is not absent of fear, She just turns into something beautiful instead She weaves words and letters into poems […]

6/30   I left her house and she called after me, “Be kind to yourself” When I left my Chirporactor appointment,  He told me to take it easy  The people around me have a way of tucking the love letters I often ignore into my interactions with them  They remind me to move slower To […]

5/30   The first poem I ever wrote about being black Was about how I feared my hair would not match with my love for marshmallow toned, Ashton Kutcher look alikes That she would be a part of me they could never understand Long then short, then long again  Curly then straight but long  and […]

4/30   I am still waiting for the day that we realize that we cannot truly test brilliance That you cannot shade in enough bubble points to see the inner magic of a human mind  Children are being told already that their are limits to how they will be seen I teach, to remind them […]

3/30 Purity culture Did not teach us how to become women It taught us how disappear It taught us how to pretend to ignore our ability to feel past our own understanding because no one ever wanted to talk about it   So now we are talking about it I am tired Of seeing women […]