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Before You Go

Just me and you
In a dark room
I know you gotta leave soon
But i wanna hear your heartbeat...
It lets me know that you bleed
It lets me know that you feel pain 
just like me.
I put your hand on my chest and 
look up at you
I say its okay, you can feel mine 
too(: 
you pull away but I don't except 
defeat
I put your hand back cuz I know that 
your just scared
Cuz those feelings you have for me 
aren't supposed to be there.
Your showing the feelings that you 
usually keep so discrete
And that right there puts us in heat.
And in this moment of heat
You grab the sheets
And from your head to your feet
Every inch of you taste so sweet,
Your feelings aren't deplete
And I know all this because I heard 
your heartbeat.
And me laying here
With your chest to my ear
Is just one more memory of us I 
won't be able to delete
And we're a little offbeat
But the evidence is concrete
That I love you and you love me
And I know all of this... Because I 
felt your heartbeat

Copyright © Lati James | Year Posted 2012



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We'Ll Call This Relationship Self Mutilation

Were so bi-polar it makes it hard to co-exist
the way it feels when we kiss, your hard to resist
until you get pissed and decide to raise your fist
but i dont flinch, im too used to this shit
ill say "go ahead hit me again,
gimme a reason to swim
in a sea full of vicodin
all i need is an excuse, to cut myself open
to grab some cash, buy,crush,& smoke this dope"and 
youll say "girl stop trippin, u cant even be mad
its your fault for loving something that hurts you so bad"
in the midst of our love theres and abundance of doubt
when you make me cry you tell me not to pout
and when i ask do you even care how i feel you say thats not what this is about
but when your really feeling guilty youll buy an ounce and smoke me out
and when i black out, your the only one who can fill in the gaps
i can quit any drug but your the only thing that makes me relapse
and as i lay in the middle of this floor in heavy sedation
i cant help but to think this relationship is self mutilation...

Copyright © Lati James | Year Posted 2012


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