Tag: hours
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Changing Weather
Tomorrow’s dreams are not promised today We will sit on the edge of playful tales To clasp onto the desires of fate We will weave baskets with the love we played We dig deep searching for hidden water Let the wells swell with the life we have found Hoping the hours will not falter Contaminated…
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Embarrassing Journal Post: Get Your Eagle On
I been a dark skin sista all my life. Whether in a afro, locks, relaxed or tightly bound braids. I have spent my days as a black woman through and through. During my youth, I spent many days and nights feeling as though my blackness never matched up to societal norms. Growing up I wasn’t…
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Missing
He’s missing again NO calls NO text Only emptiness Hangs in the void He’s been MIA Since he was a little boy Days turned to nights And nights turned to days Weeks at a time combined into months Months turned into years Sometimes, I would look for him In the highways and byways Of cities…
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Unseen Tomorrow
Sometimes, the heart doesn’t know… Yesterday from tomorrow It seems like the days all run together The seconds blur into minutes Followed by inconsequential hours We look toward the unseen Like a fawn searching for their mother’s face, Fresh out the womb Procreated quickly but birthed too soon The future is based on the present…
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First Date
Look into the starry eyes of a distance lover And wonder… What does it take to pull them closer? And why does near feel so far away? We wait for the perfect moment But fail to seize the day As though the opportunity for love will last As if the chance will never go astray…
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Blue Screens
Digital excitement Turned into relationship slumber Don’t sleep on me Even when the electric stops following Love, God and work ethic is all you need But 2K beckoned louder Pay attention like it’s a 9-5 Though the things that give you pleasure Won’t keep you alive But never came to see about me Didn’t give…
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Rendezvous
Rendezvous In a wine colored, brick building Off 54th and Drexel Down the street from the chicken shack Is where it all began We were looking for love In the city of sin A flash flood ran through as he came in As promises hung over the starry sky We locked eyes and…
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Keep Going
Keep Going Push, pull, pursue and prevail According to Gladwell, It takes 10,000 hours to do anything well So keep going Love always, Esha <3
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Relationship With Food
Relationship With Food Stop! Hold up! Pause! I want you but I don’t need you The fried chicken with the french fries And the mild sauce on the side Been calling me I’m so hungry I started scrolling through Uber eats I am enticed by meaty bacon burgers and sweet tea But as…
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