Love Poems: For Akuvi

[embed]https://soundcloud.com/blackloveprjct/for-akuvi[/embed]my mothermy sweet, warm mother.her dark skin glows with years of wisdom and sorrowmy sweet, foreign motherMonrovia's girlmy strong motherthick bodied but gentlelong fingers crooked and softly withered by labor and timei want to weep while i lay in her lapwe will not always have these momentsshe will return to Godshe has never belonged to mebut i have always been hersshe has taught me to work until my fingers bleedto work through a bleeding heartto pray to God when the dawn comesand in the stillness of nights when God speaksshe bleeds for meher heart breaks with my ownshe’s seen it before in her own lightshe knows the way to healingi gladly rest my head on her breaststhose nourishing moundsi listen to her heart beat to find my way

Love Poems: Vanity

[embed]https://soundcloud.com/blackloveprjct/vanity[/embed]you once said something about being a reflection of meif that is the casethen you've shown me i am beautifulblack and proudin you i see how lonely and sadand selfish i amhow strong and full of hope i amhow small i feelhow i carry my wounds like crosses toCalvary and call out my Holy Father's nameAdonai, it is finishedGolgotha weepsi use words to describe love i've only dreamed ofbut have never tasteddo not know how to givei whisper bedtime stories to lovers about past life love affairsand caresses that stop timeyou inside of meme on top of youbodies writhingin rhythms given by ancestors'we are one', you saidgrowing seedsbrown babies who will notsee the things we've seenwill not know sorrowmaybe a better family than we hadmaybe this will eat our lonelinessmaybe if we call it lovewe will forget that goodbyes come unexpectedlybut they always comeit is truei do see myself in youi recognize untold pains masked in solid shellsometimes i crumble when the morning breaksmy roots ache and stretchsomething calls to me from the fog of these bayousis it you or me?oh loveryou have shown me your true colorsyou have shown me myself in multitudesso i thank youAdonai, it is finishedGolgotha weeps

Love Poems: if this is goodbye

[embed]https://soundcloud.com/blackloveprjct/love-poems-if-this-is-goodbye[/embed]he says:'if this is goodbyelet me leave you with this'and goes on to speak in metaphorsand riddlesabout games and how he is merely a playerhe's just here so he doesn't get finedi sit in silence and listenas he explains that even in lovehe does not play to winhe thinks i play to win because i love himas if that is not the point of it allas if i do not see myself in himas if i was not born to a motherless fatherso i know what it means to love menwho search for healing in womenbut do not know how to love themthey do not know how to be softhe is colderhardened man, beautiful souldark eyes that peerlook into mei do not breathe. electricity.he feels it too and calls it dangerousbut does not look awayasks what i'm thinkingeverything and nothingi tell him things i do not meanand things that rest in silencewords i will not speakwords he will not hearuntil two in the morningwhen God tells me to'write the things you cannot speak'so i write'if this is goodbyelet me leave you with this'love is not a gamewe are not team matesmy heart not made from leatherit pumps and bleedsi am a whole woman whohas opened herself to a darkchild who burns golden gate bridgesif this is goodbye may you learn to notsearch for yourself in the hearts of womendo not sell them your loneliness and call it lovethey will believe youi believed you

love poems: emotional selectivity

i get iteveryone you've loved has left youyour deep eyes have seen thedark shadows of death as they sweepthrough corners of the bayyou steel yourself to thosewho want to stay because youhave not met anyone who does not leavepeople come and goas do the sun and moonthis is lifecircular momentsyou are roaming the earthto find the thing that is calling youperhaps it is your soul askingfor your returnyou have not written letters home and it misses youknow that as you roamif with each stepyou forget the cadence of my voicei too will forget yoursbut if i continueto come to you in dreamsbe assured that youstill haunt me, too

Love Poems: Don't Come to Say You Love Me

1.3.2015don't come to say you love meif you are not ready to beloved by memy love will swallow you wholeand spit you out a new manthere may come women after mebut it will be my name that haunts youit will be my face you see in dark nightsdo not ask to swim in my watersif you are not prepared to dive infor they run deepand will carry you awayyou have only dipped your feetin shallow poolscome, i will not let you drown

Love Poems: The Wars You've Faced

the wars you've faced have neverbeen of the flesh, you say.of course,you only sound the trumpetfor matters of the soul.you were still fighting your battle with heron the day you said you loved me.i saw your armorbut only thought of you as kingi did not know that i'd met you on the front lineshow was i to know this was a war zone?you are like a haunted housethe way you sleep with ghosts of lovers pastshe haunts your dreamsyet, you say that i imagine her presencedon't you know that i too see spirits?you've left to chase phantoms who call out to youfrom the shadows of harlemyou've been waiting on herwhile selling me sweet dreams to bide your timei do not blame you, for i bought them gladlyshe is your Siren and you have heard her singingyou rush to her shores and your destructionone in the the sameand only look back to tell me not to wait

Love Poems: Day Two

you dream of him in blueand whisper his namein the darkness of southern nightslistening to the cityas it breathesthe walls you've built from crumbling earthshake as he speaks your namethey tumble to let him inthrough your cracks and insecuritieshe enters boldlyand says you feel like homehe thinks you are beautifulyou want to eat away his sadnessso you swallow yoursand ask for second helpingsof his griefyou've always loved the oneswho were beautiful and intensethey too know how it feelsto set yourself on firewhen someone says i love youhow it feels when you finallyturn to ash