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Exquisite Delight

Some say I have a way with words when truly most words have their way with me

And yes, I adore them best without any tautology

Caressing my psyche causing me to purr

Evoking emotions I never knew could occur

Incredible compilations of syllables

Precisely thrown together creating the unthinkable

To surreptitiously eschew

Grammatical errors innately out of the blue

Assembling phonetic chemistry

With sudden cognizance and poetic symmetry

Incessantly pondering over euphemisms

Reprieving the malediction of diction cataclysms

Putting to rest the Z’s in any onomatopoeia

Arranging every article and particle of speech to accentuate the main idea

With exact execution of the ultimate locution in sight

I peruse, comprehend, and write with exquisite delight

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The Reverberating Sins of My Father

Can’t remember what you look like or even the way you smell

I’ve gazed upon many who fit the description but are any of them you, who’s to 
tell?

I’ve told myself I’m over it time and again

But the feelings of abandonment nag at my soul and my aggravated spirit 
cries, “Daddy, where you been?”

I’ve ran through bedrooms and barrooms hoping to receive compensation for 
your debt to me

No covering over my shame and proudly wearing my badge of illegitimacy

It’s crazy

I named my son Jeddidiah

Simply because David was his father

And mine too

Then from David to Dawud

Man, I don’t even know you

But I do know that I love you

How very strange to me 

That my estranged daddy

Has the ability

To evoke from me, a stranger

The most powerful of things so effortlessly, albeit I’m 
angered

I was a pretty little girl, so sweet and just as good

How or why did you leave me as unprotected prey for wolves?

I don’t understand, didn’t – don’t you love your offspring?

I mean, don’t you care about the precious things,

About my happenings,

About anything that has to do with me?

Do you even remember my name?

Remember it was me that you potty trained

Now think back to that day you left us in the rain

In front of my aunt’s house over on Paine

Nobody was home that day so we just sat on the stoop getting drenched by the 
shame

My mother barely seventeen, us loving you in vain

There have been stepfathers who abused

And many years later, men that have used and thrown me away like refuse

And I prayed and begged to be rescued by you

But it’s all been of no use

I suppose I could go on for a lifetime

And still never find

The ultimate locution to express my hurt over this matter

And even though I was constructed from half your matter

You’ll probably never read this anyway, so what I write really doesn’t matter

But just in case mere happenstance causes you to peruse the configurations of 
my pen

I need you to know that over the years I’ve needed you and to my chagrin

It has truly been

A reverberating sin

That your oldest daughter has never known where in the hell you’ve been

Daddy, where you been?

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The Lore of Living Lies

Living lies thus multiply then divide the mind’s eye of their owners
Surreptitiously increasing, they’re distinctively releasing noxious toxins within 
their donors
To their chagrin,
Fear lives within
An augmented, exclusively demented, overtly invented place of internal judgment
Finding rejuvenation, removing the devastation, but never full restoration of the 
broken covenant
Pensively stained with much disdain, yet clearly aimed, aching hearts will tell a 
story
They importune mankind, 
And swear of truths with double sides,
And hang the noose between the lines
Much of which is the lore of we.

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Lovely Bliss

When I tell you I love you, you never say a thing

You have no idea how much that scares me

See, most brothas’ don’t want a commitment

And us sistas’ we seem so down with it

And I just realized 

For the very first time

That all I ever wanted was a dude like you

Yeah, just like you

I tried to protest and stop this from happening

I even told you, now here I am again

I find you speaking to me at times

And yes I realize

That I am in a trance,

A deep dazed consciousness

And I’m thinking about this thing

And I’m wondering, are you at all in love with me

But perhaps since you’ve not said those words

In which I would never try to coerce

That you’re not in love with me at all

And we’re just friends and I’ve got a lot of gall

And a whole lot of nerve to ever even fall

Hopelessly and madly in love with you man

You see I’ve got a bunch of bags

Albeit, without your love I’m truly sad

However you’re cool to have around

So yes, I am one of those sistas’ that continues to be down

No commitment

I’m wit’ it

Just let me breathe your air

And occasionally into your eyes stare

And though you never say it’s with me that you’re in love

I often sit and ponder over whether or not those words will ever come

I used to have 99 problems and a dude wasn’t one

But since I met you, you’ve become most of ‘em

Damn, Why I gotta’ love, I wish I could only like

Be happy with the minimal and the sex all night

But that’s not the case and we’re dealing with reality

Though, the idea of you not being in love with me has got me feeling melancholy

So from here on out

I’ll keep my love in my mouth

Mind my L’s and my V’s 

And I’ll just have to sustain the lovely bliss of being in love with me.

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Insatiable Necessity

Oh, do you miss being kissed?

Do you secretly reminisce over that lovely, sweet wetness?

The way tongues intermingling
 
Cause a deep, very much-needed inner tingling

Mmm, an insatiable necessity

Is the lack thereof beginning to agitate thee?

That soft fullness that evokes beautiful passion

If only love allotted even a ration of a fraction

Then your heart would not be forced to depend upon fantasies so intense

Of your lover blessing you with a deliciously tantalizing, hungry, wet kiss

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Peace Be Still

Discouraged I buckle & fall
Without an inkling of how to rise
But Holy Spirit is there after all
You see my Father He hears my cries
Though I was weak I continued to pray
Feeling so lost I hated this life
Oh help me Jah was all I could say
My spirit sick knew only strife
And of course I would feel lost
In a world that's not for me
Beaten down & constantly tossed
Amongst wolves when I am a sheep
Then my Savior He calls my name
Prodding me back to His fold
He lifts me up & heals my pain
Was incomplete but now I'm whole

Peace Be Still
I silently prayed & the madness all ceased
Peace Be Still
He lifted me up & blessed me with His Peace

And I don't know why
Can't describe
See words are not enough
All I know is with His love and His wisdom
He got me through when life's been rough
And just know that there were times when I thought that He'd abandoned me
Oh so weak all I could say was Jah please help me
And then He taught me peace

Peace Be Still
I silently prayed & the madness all ceased
Peace Be Still
He lifted me up & blessed me with His Peace