Failed Poems

When they failed black kids without homes

Her hair stood out
Reaching for the skies
Wishing on every star at night
Someone would hear her cries
Her need to have a life she doesn't just have to survive 

The chaos of hair confused
Unsure how to keep it or what to do
She is the only one in the room
That had hair that flew 
Just a child without

My God Has Not Failed

My God has not failed, though the world says He has
My God has not failed, though through flames I must pass
Though grief fills my heart, I do not have despair
My Savior still loves me and hears every prayer

My God has not failed, though mere men taunt and laugh
My God has not failed on this difficult

I Failed

Trudging down the same path
Present equals past
Red clay
My problems outlast
The runes have been cast
Astray
A delayed forecast
Emotion outcast
I failed 

Failed Swingers' Party - bawdy

THeir plan - in each oriface pour
some Vaseline, KY and more...
with rings of the bell
they both had to yell,
"Too greasy to open the door."

I Guess I Failed to Stimulate Her Chakras

I don’t dream often, but I dream of Jeanie,
the only one who ever touched my Nadi.
I met her bathing in the Irrawaddy.
You’d classify her as an in-betweenie,
but looking pretty hot in that bikini!
She got me going when she called me ‘daddy’!
Jean self-identified as “thorough baddie,”
but never let me see her Kundalini.

I couldn’t leave her working

When black meets betrayal

She did everything she could 
And yet somehow it wasn't enough

She did everything right
Yet she still lost the fight

From the very first moment She was born
She was was Stripped of her voice 
There were complications with her mum
But before they could help she was gone
Her father was falsely imprisoned 
The child was silent
But there was

I Tried And I Failed

I tried to escape you long ago.
'Til fate set straight my own ego.

Lost my frequency

I lost the frequency long ago
At first it hadn’t seemed important
I could barely tell the difference
But once it was gone I couldn’t get it back

There was a time where that didn’t matter
Then it did
And it was too late

They tried turning the nob
Hoping the new frequency would work
But it never did

The nob would twist
Left and right
Back

Capitalism, The Failed American Dream

the damned alarm howls at 5 a.m.
like a thirsty rabid dog in the dark.
I throw my bones into a threadbare suit,
and drag my carcass out the door.

the streetlights flicker, dying gods,
the freeway hums a tired hymn.
coffee burns my throat—
fuel for another round in the machine.

the boss with his middle fat finger,
his gold watch, his ulcer

You failed to listen

This is a proclamation of my mind’s commotion.
No matter the relation,
When I say no, you need to listen,
I thought you would understand,
But you persisted,
And now I must live with this for my entire existence.

Do you understand the definition of permission?
Or you just did it to fulfil your sensations?
Yeah, we had a sensual relationship and probably

Failed Wishes

The yearly line I chose to change course
is a self-afflicted wound
that bleeds each day, as I travel
the universe that spins in darkness
on its journey through the blackness of space
a second, a year, does not matter
if finding a reason to nurture my soul
comes once a year, in the form of wishes
to be met that are useless
where

failed marriage

Failed marriage

In my village in the Algarve, I met a retired
Captain in the US Army, he had a military walk
and tended to dress like he was on a safari 
He had a house in Florida with crocodiles
on the lawn, he never said what he did when
in the army. perhaps the catering corps 
on his travel to see

The Fallen and The Failed

{"I anguish myself with the presence of a loved one to keep me alive inside of my head. 
Call me crazy, insane, a moron in all depths of despair, but my reluctance for somebody to love me as a whole rather than a midget of sensation was corresponding in waves through me. 
Our fingers have

To My Ex-Husband: I Was Fluent in What Failed Us

I missed the window of my telling
you who you are. My greatest
talent, f*cked too thin to mend,
or maim when it mattered most.

I’m not mad anymore, just sifting
through the wreckage of my gift—
this heft of language, all I ever said,
only salve on hand to save us, too often 
out of stock.

Words flawless on paper, I fell

I Wish I Never Failed in Love

"I Wish I Never Failed in Love" 

In the realm of heartbeats, I lost my way
A path that wound through love's disarray
If I had one more wish, I'd undo the pain
Erase the scars, rewrite love's stained refrain 

A tragic ending, where love went astray
I thought I was special, but faded away
A good man turned cold,

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