POETRY
Is lover and bully teasing terrorizing Taunting seducing soul To spill its guts Poetry can’t keep Secrets always telling everything It knows I trust it Because Poems always speak truth Even when truth lies Poetry Timeless tool Available To both scholar and fool Same thing
BREAK-A-LEG
Broken hearts & wings/Broken bones, dreams— Promises—Spirits/Broken homes & other things I’m breaking up/I’m breaking down. Then—came a therapeutic break— Though/It was that I couldn’t Break it off/I could not break out/ Until I broke in—To my broken self.
Chardelle Imani Lassiter
Chardelle Imani Lassiter
DÉJÀ VU
So changed... Is the world we knew. Over the years I’ve wondered if I’m still me And if you’re still you. And here we are again. Déjà vu. Many spring times past you asked: What do you hate? And who do you love? I answer now,
I hate the preposterous nature of fate. I love when we were as two silken doves.
Chardelle Imani Lassiter
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