Pain I Do Not Know Poems

Dreams……
In your Dreams, what is it that you see when you close your eyes at night?
In your Dreams, are you alone? Is there a special...

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Stitches
 
A wound, deep and wide
Gaping, Ragged, Bleeding

Cover with the cloth of

False Smiles

Cover with the cobweb gauze of

Empty Sympathy

Clamp it shut with fingers of

Chemical Laughter

Hold...

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Only those who've 
Lost a loved one 
Will understand 
The pain 

Of waking 
every morning 
Knowing life 
Won't be The same 

Your hearts been 
Torn...

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Dear mama, your image lingers clear,
Your warm smile, your love sincere.
Your heart, so beautiful and kind,
A guiding light, now left behind.

I yearned to make you...

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It grieves me to witness our youth's demise,
Each day, each hour, another life unties.
Daughters, sons, announced dead, bereft,
In a world where cruelty has left.

What have...

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Heart of Gold

A heart of gold
Will melt in the fervent heat
Of scorn…in the fires
Of pride, where greed is born.


A heart of lead
Will be Heavy with...

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.Evil

A wormy apple bruised
bread crawling with weevils
Mottled black and blue
Essences of evil
Skull and crossbones warn
 deadly poisonous gas
Tortured cries and moans
Creepy sutured mask
Disguises of light...

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Grief
Trauma and loss, a child has died
That never goes away …don't even try
It's in every room,every breath,every step you take
When Your asleep and when your...

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The Garden Womb

She is not virginal
Not unused
Not pure
Being ancient 
and of old,
Inevitably,
Been touched before. 

Many years 
a widow,
She is a lonesome, 
barren land.
So many 
passing...

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He yelled at me in Ewe, my friend.
I asked him to calm down.
Such an accent, powerful and forceful,
It fired me up, igniting a desire:
Passionate love...

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Dear Child 

Life's look now not good
Life's look like God doesn't care about you or that God doesn't love you.
That he has forget about you.
But...

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Starting quite fragile, wet, bright and agile,
it met the first test of it’s life.
Death promptly flew down, pecked at the ground, 
a beak that glints...

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You've made me feel every emotion since we met, but you've never made me feel pain.
Now my eyes are like waterfall,
and my mind's like a...

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This dull, heavy ache never leaves my heart.
It is a constant reminder that I’m not good enough, and never was.
It’s a reminder that my body...

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when having been born black in the dark
how black will eyes be of those who are Black
while seeing the black coming out of them
being able...

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