"For She Is Me"
Through trials and tribulations
Dark days guide her to the light
At night she regains what is hers
Nothing contemporary was meant to last
Through the mirror
The Glass eclipse the voice behind her eyes
The hunger
The pain
The power she craves
Is what I put first
For she is me
Before I beg and plead to be considered half as important as you
My throne is what I aim to conquer
For she is me
The rich and divine woman of the land
For you I am too divine to hold
A mere Butterfly wrapped in silk and gold
Is not meant to be caged
For She Is Me
Nor does the crown that is placed upon my head be unshined or unnoticed
For She Is Me
I reign
I rise
I grind
I made this Kingdom and it will continue to grow
For I rise
For she is me
For I am that power
The one and only Queen B.
Categories:
unshined, black african american, butterfly,
Form: Concrete
When I was less than twenty-nine
my job was to build a pipe line.
More specifically, it was to find
pipeliners who'd work for a dime
and get the work all done in time.
I watched them and asked them unshined
questions to tickle their minds
that were often quite cloudy from wine.
Me and them men got along fine
and delivered the pipeline sublime.
What they didn't know at the time
was that I was six months shy of nine.
Categories:
unshined, on work and working,
Form: Monorhyme
Slashing vibrant colors humming ceaselessly
Swirling roiling hues blending unmercilessly
Royal blue piercing sanity's tenuous hold
Crimson streaks tumbling like molten gold
Streaming screaming colors weave insanity
Interlocking webs of reason slowly unravel
Melting resonating spectrum of sanity travels
Sunshine bright yellow carves through my mind
Fuschia bolts blurring and fusing unshined
Thunderheads of color spinning out of reality
Wild wonderful rush of complete dementia undone
Whispering lights invading my thoughts on the run
Dove gray slides in through my open screen door
Ebony slickly covers and dulls my senses evermore
Opens the invitation of my mind to fertility
Categories:
unshined, angst, confusion, imagination, introspection,
Form: Rhyme