Dark Swallow Poems

The young giraffe ate a hot red pepper
The poor animal felt like a leper.
The spicy fruit was too hot and it took
Her long to digest...

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I swallow hard the bitter tastes of your lips
I choke down your shards of hard lies, 
External stains
I wonder why I let you into my...

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11/1/21

Ever since a child
It's all been a vicious cycle
Through all the tribulations and trials
I was happy or I didn't smile
Stuck for awhile, or got by...

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Clean like a glass
Dirty like a smeared rag
Dark like a sponge soaked in black
Shining like a powerful lamp
Sieved by branches, broken like a cracked glass
Busy...

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           Alone by the brook,
          ...

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I Force My Drink, Dark Poison To Swallow

Chastise me in my deep, darkest sorrow,
young lad of hopes and meandering streams.
I long for relief now not...

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I’m not too sure will I make it
Confusing the day with night
My visions are sure they are naked
And see-through held up to the light
I’ve been...

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I destroy childhoods and tear homes apart.
	I make you neglect your bills and blacken your heart.
  
	I’ll cost you a small fortune. I’m more...

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The Horn of Africa is where I am from.
I am just a simple woman with her children.
Lord God is our seeker and natural disaster will...

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Time has passed slowly in the blink of an eye,
Because my heart was wiped away, like sand with the tide.
It's tossing and turning in the...

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And at your banquet 
while they serve you 
you stay silent.

The flint glass cup 
shines in front of your plate 
blood-red for the sweet poison...

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