amagyn spencer Poet Spoken Word

My life is like a string

my life is like a string
being stitched together and coming undone
being stitched together and coming undone
my heart is like a rainstorm 
the pitter-patter of my soul filled of love soliloquies unsung 
filled of promises broken and repeated and rerun
and broken again
and again 
my life is like a string being stitched together and coming undone
being stitched together and coming undone
filled of triumphs and awards and “Bug, I’m so proud of you” 
and crushed spirits disguised as “fun” and “Am’Agyn look what you’ve done” and look who you’ve become and look what you all have forced me to be 
my life is like a string being stitched together and coming undone 
being stitched together and coming undone
my face is like a quilt weaved in relationship but laced in regret but reverenced with love
the smile of my mom and the rest of my dad 
whose absence I swear doesn’t affect me but sometimes I wonder if with him id be less sad
if with him that first heartbreak wouldn’t have broken me and left me me feeling more alone than had 
more hurt than healed 
more hated than held 
My life is like a string being stitched together and coming undone
Being stitched together and coming undone 
and to the first boy I loved i still whisper your name in every breath 
because I meant it when I said until apart does us death 
My life is like a string being stitched together and coming undone 
Being stitched together and coming undone 
Highly decorated, often imitated, never duplicated, still and yet they say it’s luck- Am’Agyn Nae Spencer
Unforgettable, remarkable, and always “the one” 
yet and still bursting at the seams, seeping with yearning, a pine that could leave you foaming at the mouth, a pain that you wouldn’t believe until it poured out
or until its weaving weakens 
like a stubborn string
being stitched together and coming undone 
being stitched together and coming undone

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